I am taking a bet (although odds are against me) that eventually fees will go down. I remember a few months ago I was doing exactly what you said and was managing to, within a few days, get under 10 gwei transactions approved.
The fees were even lower with Chi Gas Token but they removed that feature hoping to stabilize prices… It did stabilize to the upside…
I am not a heavy Ethereum user or influencer but if they aren’t gonna do sharding or PoS soon they should revert.
But I am not an Ethereum analysts so maybe those changes were indeed the less worse choice, but so far it has been going downhill and getting worse by the week.
I feel your pain. Right now I only do really critical transactions on mainnet and have started using hop protocol to aid touching L1. That said, I also have stuff on L1 and the fees for unlocking do make the eyes water...
.. But I had to do one the other day. Ouch! But at least it was 'only' 40 gwei or so.
Edit, I was remembering something else. 75 gwei...