During the halving, people may have made larger transactions that caused the free to be higher, although people with higher fees did not wait to complete their transactions. People were more aware when Bitcoin halved, and although they were more interested in trading in Bitcoin, many people were discouraged from trading because of the high gas fees. However, at the time of the halving, even though gas fees had increased significantly, many people did not trade and instead waited. Although Bitcoin transaction fees have come down a lot now, if we can wait a little longer it will definitely come down even more. Despite the high fees, many people traded in Bitcoin and continued their work, although many people could not trade because of the high fees, but if we wait a little longer, maybe the transaction fees will drop further this week.
Because they want to have their inscriptions on that particular block, even willing to pay as high as $36,000. But despite that, this is how bitcoin is design, to have halving every 4 years and I guess that's enough for everyone to celebrate and witnessed it as other might have not seen in run-time. There are a lot of countdowns as well, so we can say that it is again another successful halving. And despite the insane fees 2-3 days after, and because of this Runes, maybe the fees will continue to go up. Nevertheless, just like before when the tx fees goes up, just a matter of time before it came back down again to at least manageable, 10 sats/vB.