Unfortunately, yes. Segwit has made some improvement in this regard but it is definitely insufficient. Unless you're proactively doing consolidation and making transactions during the less congested periods, it's likely that you're going to pay a significant fees when doing micro transactions. If you're looking to do micro transactions, it could be better for you to explore offchain solutions instead. Lightning network offers instantaneous transaction while maintaining a fairly low fee.

It's still a problem for some about the fees but if you can use those wallets that allows you to adjust the fees from recommended to customize, you can pay the lowest fee that's accepted. It's never been a problem to me anymore unlike eoy of 2017.

Because it's just getting started, the adoption that we've been waiting for. It's being recognized and who won't take the attention of it if it's breaking new all time highs?

Right now fees are much higher due to all this bull run. Only other coins (not all anyway) are suitable for payments right now

Technically, there are multiple ways to make transaction in the bitcoin' blockchain. And there are ways to maintain the low fees. As other members mention above, segwit and lightning network are the solution for you. It is quite complicated to people who are familiar with

Personally, I always avoid sending a small amount of crypto. It does consume a huge fee to me and I'd rather use a digital online money transfer (such as PayPal). They are much faster and I dont have to pay to a single fee. Crypto is for my investment. The more I have, the richer I am
 

Avoiding paying high fees is one thing, but having lower fees getting confirmed is a different thing.
Controlling what fee you pay will help you not overspend, you will not get any other discount.

I can send now 1sat/b fee, would that confirm in a reasonable time? Of course, if you don't care when it will get confirmed if it's just transferred from your wallet to your cold storage if it's a consolidation transaction you would normally don't care but what if you want to buy something?
Are you going to wait from Monday till Saturday when the fees go usually down for your transaction to finally confirm at which time it's possible the merchant will be out of stock for that item? Take a look at coinpayments, if the sanctions don't confirm in 8 hours they drop it and return you the money when it finally does.

This is not like avoiding a toll road and finding a dirt road that will get you there with a tax.
Higher fees are unavoidable if you want fast confirmations during some periods, nothing other than a transaction accelerator like via btcwill help you then

It's not that of a serious problem. There will always be newbie investors in whatever asset type and that includes BTC. New investors rely on more experienced investors or what their financial gurus are saying. They are here since some of their "idols" are also telling them to buy bitcoin. A lot of them don't really understand how Bitcoin transaction works.

The real value in BTC that people fail to see or do not want to accept is it's a decentralized currency. It may not be able to replace fiat as a global currency but it will remain a good alternative for moving funds without any centralized entity interference.

Try moving $1 million dollars in fiat and compare it to moving $1 million BTC. You'll save time and probably on fees too when transferring large money like that in bitcoin. I remember a tweet by Elon asking if it's possible to convert large billions of dollars into bitcoin in his conversation with Michael Saylor.

Both.

Well, It's still the same. High fees are still one of the main concern about Bitcoin, but If you know how to minimize the fees then It would be less worrying on your edge.
I believe, you're using custodial wallets or exchange that usually been charging you a lot for tx fees and is usually has a slight difference in Btc - Fiat pair.
Some people already mentioned a few methods on how to save yourself from ridiculously high fees.

Good points, thank you for your time and explanation, it's clear now

Fee in 2020 (about $16) and 2021 is cheaper  than in December 2017 (> $50). What do you meant? https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html
Median transaction fee recently only climbs back to the peak in the last 3 month period: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin

It has a fixed total supply. It has scheduled halvings after around 4 year (after each 210,000 blocks). Many bitcoin was lost and bitcoin is the initiator of the blockchain industry that is the future of human civilization.