I'm sorry to break a spear in favor of ETH, but it has the tx cost it has because people USE IT.

Do you want cheaper fees? Perfect, use Arbitrum or another cheaper chain (but remember you're exchanging security for UX).

Probably it's because I'm a relatively 'big' player and can afford to pay ETH fees, but I see the high cost of tx in ethereum as a feature, not as a bug.

If you know how to play your game with ETFs you can have a better ROI on short periods of time than by holding actual crypto.

Don't think so. Holding beats Trading long-term, always. I encourage you to AVOID at all costs using leverage of whatever form. Even more in Binance (famous for being down in moments of extreme volatility). Please, be careful.

In this regard BTC is killing ETH...

Not really. Apples and Oranges there. we're not talking about the same because 100% of Bitcoin is into the Store of Value proposition. Sending 'plain' ETH costs around 2-5$.

I'm staying away from ETH and its ERC-20 tokens until they do something with the fees.

Ironically, 90% of ALL my assets are in ETH or ERC20's because I can't afford the risk of other chains like Solana after the recent events, for example.

Would you risk being trapped in a centralized chain because 'xyz'? Remember how it was the exit process from Steem?

No way. This is the reason we pay to use ETH. Because it's the place where 90% of defi and settlement happens.

For all that reasons (although I would prefer them to be a bit more user-friendly) I prefer to use Ethereum.

Regards Adrian. Hope you're fine :)