.... and they keep advertising ethereum as cheap transactions, fast, low fee, and without scaling problems but in reality everyone who has ever said it either had some stake in it and wanted the price to go up or they never made a transaction in their lives because they keep their ETH on exchanges for fast dumping purposes.
ethereum started as a good idea and continued to be a pretty illusion.
Agreed trying to download the blockchain is a nightmare I had a contract address in mist that had some eth in it so I had to download the blockchain so I could sent it to my normal mew wallet well it took days unless you have high end hardware with a ssd good luck