Interestingly at about the same time you published this, the official discord channel of Apes was hacked, with millions of dollars worth of NFTs and ETH stolen. 
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1533106970630270982
Moreover, some suggest the Apes contract contains an inflation bug, although I'm not entirely sure about that, still I consider the source credible.
https://twitter.com/BennettTomlin/status/1533126243889061888

On topic, the fees was the reason I exited Ethereum in 2020. Knowing how developments lag, any scaling solution like sharding (which is a decent solution if and when applied) will take a minimum of five years. I've been called various names by Ethereum fans when I stopped using it but sadly was right all along. Two years later, it is all even worse than I expected. Maybe even the five years horizon I was expecting was too low. Perhaps in ten years something will change. And by then, there would be networks with sharding already.

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