Interestingly at about the same time you published this, the official discord channel of Apes was hacked, with millions of dollars worth of NFTs and ETH stolen.
Moreover, some suggest the Apes contract contains an inflation bug, although I'm not entirely sure about that, still I consider the source credible.
On topic, the fees was the reason I exited Ethereum in 2020. Knowing how developments lag, any scaling solution like sharding (which is a decent solution if and when applied) will take a minimum of five years. I've been called various names by Ethereum fans when I stopped using it but sadly was right all along. Two years later, it is all even worse than I expected. Maybe even the five years horizon I was expecting was too low. Perhaps in ten years something will change. And by then, there would be networks with sharding already.
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I also stopped using ETH for the fees and I have never regretted it.
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