I don't transfer bitcoin often as well, but in my view this shouldn't justify the high transaction fees. Not everyone moves thousands of dollars with each transaction as well, so you have the danger of the fee costing more than the transaction itself, which is never a positive thing, of course.

They will go up cuz bitcoin price is going up.

The fees could be reduced if more wallets would implement Segwit or if users started to switch to wallets that do support it. But there's a permanent solution coming that will make the network much faster and reduce the fees significantly, it's called the lightning network. It could support over 1 million transactions per second and still register them on the blockchain. However that's a technology that's still being developed so it won't solve the problems tomorrow.

Nope.  You could quite comfortably send a transaction with fees of 100 satoshi/byte if you were willing to wait a while, which would result in fees of about $4 for a non-SegWit transaction with one input and one output.

Perhaps you are sending an unusually large transaction; your wallet software is sending an unnecessarily high fee; you're sending a high-priority transaction; or a combination of both.

The fees are very high, but the fee you're talking about is atypical.
They would go down in three possible occasions:

-Major services actually start using SegWit
-The hype dies down and people don't need to desperately send for their trading
-Another scaling solution is implemented

The recent rise in transaction fees and just mind blowing.i am pretty sure the fees are being increased just to deter bitcoin holders from selling.
Probably after hitting 20k the fees might drop a little.

Yes, actually they are a little bit high. I think that this problem needs quickly a solution because nowadays it is not that easy to send micro transactions for trading fast.
By the way you can use alternatives for sending funds to exchanges (for example digibyte as a low transaction fee)

Bitcoin has a transaction fee system to handle situations where demand for the network exceeds its capacity. Whenever someone submits a transaction to the network, they have the option to include a transaction fee that goes to whichever miner includes that transaction in a block. if there are more transactions than will fit into one block, miners can be expected to choose the transactions with the highest fees first.

or the protocol starts measuring in 100byte/sat instead of 1byte/sat
lame brain developers think the protocol cant go below 1byte/sat without having to add millisat units if measure. but they are wrong. it can be done, if they really thought about it.

also a new fee priority formulae could be added that actually works.

This is going to be a major problem as the price rises we could even get to the point this could stop bitcoin from making any progress. As we get to the point where it costs more for transactions than what's been sent.