Yes, the situation is returning to normal, we have transaction fees that have dropped back to normal levels
I advise you to have something on LN if you have to spend, so that when we have these fee storms you can still use the network
best solution when we have storm
It's a bit more normal than in the past days, but even $5 for the most common transaction is too much, especially if it's a microtransaction. LN has its purpose and meaning, but unfortunately not everyone uses it, so sometimes it's worth nothing if you have funds on it, and the other party does not accept such a payment method.
That is correct.
The only good thing coming out from all this is that it appears that we have finally solved that trilemma that Paul Sztorc was talking about a few years ago (I cannot find the original article anymore, but if you type "bitcoin trilemma" you will get a bunch of copycat results from other websites). Now miners have no excuse to not work with us to solve the other, more important problems like the Attack on Privacy.
In fact, it is about something called the
"blockchain trilemma" and I know something about it in general, in fact it all boils down to finding the perfect balance between centralization, scalability and security - which definitely does not exist at this moment. I also understand those people who say that ordinals and runes only use what the blockchain enables and that their ban would be some form of censorship, but then one of the developers should come out publicly and say that Bitcoin in terms of on-chain transactions will no longer be possible because some other projects will use it.
If it was about something that makes sense and will last, I would still understand the whole thing, but the whole thing looks like an ordinary pump&dump scheme that parasitizes on Bitcoin and distances it from the people who actually use it as a currency every day.