If you notice we are settled in solidly around 45 sats.

So if fees are always at 45-50 sats.

People will have to adapt usage of side coins.

and LN chain .

I think 40 sats could be forced for long time periods.

Well said, and we should even be thankful now that the situation is not as bad as it was the last time a thing like this happened despite the memory usage now being stable above 1 GB. I saw it at almost 1.5 GB last week and I shouted because I've never witnessed that since I started using Mempool for my Bitcoin transactional plans. The last time such a thing happened, even at 1 GB, the fee climbed close to $20 which was almost 500 sat/vb, it could be more then but that was what I witnessed myself. It's not the situation now, the fees are still reasonable enough but might be far above the price you called over time. Fees tend to be lower and more reasonable during the weekend, but from Monday to Friday, we might see some upward trend unless the whole situation subsides.

And yes, people have started opting for the alternatives, it's normal when they will be paying multiples with Bitcoin.

Today the transaction fee increased again by 6%, electrum issued a warning and another thing is that my transaction is still not confirmed . It is true that nothing is perfect and we need to accept, adapt and be satisfied with everything. Bitcoin fees and confirmation times may make us feel uncomfortable, but in return it gives us almost absolute safety. It is not like other blockchains that are vulnerable to attacks and hacks. Anyway the market is correcting, I hope when my transaction is confirmed bitcoin will also reach 38k$  .

I'd say it depends on how much you DCA? I mean it might break the pattern but really, investing idk $40-$50 per week with $10 fees does not seem worth it since that's 1/4 of your total investment already. Maybe set a maximum in terms of fees so that you can guarantee it, and if it goes past that, just hold the money or something temporarily. If you can't hold it then actively look out for hours where the Mempool isn't as congested to get cheaper fees.

LN sounds good if you want to though. There are a lot of guides out there and there are also ones in the forum made by others as well. If you really don't want to break the pattern then I'd suggest go for that, but if you can handle breaking the pattern then it's up to your preference by then.

The transaction fees are currently affecting many people, but those who do DCA are the most affected. My advice is that you reduce how often you send money from the exchange to your wallet immediately after purchasing some coins. Why not leave it to accumulate for a while, say twice a week or monthly depending on how you make your purchase, so that the money spent on transaction fees is reduced? And if the transaction fees decrease at any point in time, you can immediately move them out; otherwise, you should wait to gather them before moving them out. Waiting for a lump sum is not a good idea because you will have easy access to the money and be compelled to spend it before buying bitcoin with them.

If you are doing it on a weekly basis, do it less often like once every 2 weeks, or if possible once a month. It's also hard for me to do DCA because of these insanely high gas fees, so my solution to this is to just hold other altcoins (staking coins in particular) so that I can still gain some tokens while holding it in preparation for the bull run. It doesn't mean that I'm not holding Bitcoin though, but if the transaction fees go back to normal, I will continue to accumulate Bitcoin again. It's my strategy, and I don't recommend it especially if you only want to hold Bitcoin.

Well, as long as those "expenses" that you're saying are way more important than investing it into Bitcoin then I guess there's no problem. After all, it's your money.
Patience. One word that's very hard to apply when it comes to investing. Being patient is very hard because people nowadays don't want to wait for a long time to gain money. If you don't want to pay those high gas fees, it's wait for the fees to go back to normal, or follow what your friend said.

Storing our coins on an exchange is not the right thing but in my opinion that is if it is done for the long term, for example, more than six months or more, but if it is only 1 to 3 weeks it will not be a problem when you are using a trusted exchange and currently it seems that's the best way to avoid spending more money on transaction fees.
But I'm quite curious whether CEX is currently increasing withdrawal fees due to current network conditions. because the CEX that I use doesn't do that and before the current network the withdrawal fees on the CEX were already high so it wasn't friendly for those who did DCA and withdrew every time they finished making a purchase.

It is true it is not the best option to leave your coins at an exchange for such a long time, but for the ones that are buying small amounts of bitcoin they may not have any other choice, as the only other option would be to buy an altcoin with a cheap transaction fee and then get the altcoin out of the exchange, and once the fees went down make a deposit, convert to bitcoin and then make a withdrawal, however with so many transactions and conversions it is not clear if any money could be saved with so many moves, plus you are exposing yourself by using an altcoin this way as it could drop in price and make you lose more money than what you could have lost in fees.

I would say when we are talking about putting in fiat, that doesn't really include that much money to do. I mean from my bank to bank account of binance to put up money, that is nothing, it's free and I do not spend any money at all. That means I have money at binance for free, now that I do that, I turn that fiat into bitcoin, and that only costs the trading fee as well.

This means, I can do DCA with absolutely no fee at all, just a small trading fee, which is less than a dollar. So, I can put up 50 bucks a week and that would be fine. I would still say go for it if you want to, sure transactions cost a lot but in this situation you are not having any crypto transaction. If you do have to, then suddenly that becomes a trouble and you would be right, you shouldn't have crypto transactions at that level per week, it would hurt your finances, but if you do what I said then you do not pay anything and you can do that. I know, because I have done that for years.