You are right that there is still a long way to go. BTC has drawbacks that require improvement before going mainstream. Will those drawbacks be resolved? I don't know. I don't know much about it, but maybe transactions will become cheaper once Segwit2X or further improvements kick in. Right now, transaction fees are high because the higher fee you pay, the earlier it gets picked up into a block to be processed. Otherwise, there will be other cryptocurrencies which will be technically stronger and hopefully get a bigger adoption.
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It's a fair point, but regardless, any crypto with a nominal fee instead of % has a huge flaw, as it can grow beyond mainstream transaction budget easily.
Trying to make the nominal transaction fee smaller is a huge hit to all the miners, and another step backwards into the problem. Anything that has value and is transact-able should be calculated in %. IT just scales, and it's how society works. We have not reached so far by taxing nominally.
Everything else is a trap in the long run imho.