With the high gas, I think the ethereum popularity will soon start to drop gradually and my be left for big investors only. Also, remember that crypto is driven by the community and without a large numbers of the community, it's popularity, uses, adoptions will dwindle. Ethereum has benefitted immensely from it's large community world wide but if the gas fee continues on the high side, the people will has no options but find their way to other platforms where they will very low gas transaction fees.