Fees, for instance, are always varying and lately, people have been paying upwards of $1-1.50 per transaction. For now, a great majority of people have been resorting to looking at websites like 21 inc’s average fee converter to calculate the fees for the transactions they send.
You're right, they do. And if they go on 21's average fee converter as you suggest, they certainly won't find "upwards of $1-1.50 per transaction" right now. Actually, the current transaction fee based on the median transaction size of 226 bytes would be
31,640 satoshi, according to 21.co, which converts to $0.38 at
current rates.
Sure, there's a problem with fees, but the author is clearly trying to make the situation appear more desperate than it is, perhaps as an attempt to subtly push their preferred scaling solution or perhaps just as clickbait. The average fees vary significantly, and 21.co should not be viewed as a jerry-rigged solution, it's just a normal way to determine how large a transaction fee to pay.
