It's either ignore and live with it or just use another coin for transactions.
Looking at mempool, there are still many people who are using Bitcoin over time, so I guess they just simply ignored it.
Using another coin for transactions is like saying
Bitcoin as lost its p2p value use altcoin, Soon with this Bitcoin will only be seen as a store of value and this is out of what it should be, there are definitely going to be individuals still using it no matter the congestion but we doing small transactions can't afford it.
It is just like you have said that freedom is very important, let's face the fact, aside the fact that the ordinals and causing congestion on the bitcoin network which have resulted to extreme high transaction fees, no body probably who would have cared whether they(ordinals) existed on the bitcoin network or not, Infact, majority of us could have seen their existence on the bitcoin network as a good thing as it means more usecase for bitcoin, just like Eth is used as gas for token transactions on the Ethereum ecosystem.
Alot would have still cared don't forget earlier this year there were spamming Bitcoin with s**ty inscriptions and now the free accelerator (ViaBTC) we are using as been taken over by bots, you can't call this freedom In fact it is far from it, all I see are self centered folks Ordinal should be scrap out or move to layer 2
But right now, we are here, and I think there isn't much we can do aside accept things the way they are, and personally, I feel that with miners rewards getting halved on every every halving, the high fees will contribute in keeping the bitcoin network secure as it will encourage the miners to keep mining, we all can shift to L2 of the bitcoin network - which is the lightning network, when the fees become too high for us to keep transaction on L1, we leave the L1 for those who are transacting in high amount of bitcoins and ready to pay any amount in fees.
Miners will still earn even after the halving reward as long as the block size is not increased and also don't forget bitcoin price will continue to increase which is making up also for the halving. We all can't move to L2, moving Ordinal to layer 2 would be better don't forget not everyone can technically set a LN and other easy alternative maybe LN be CEX