In one sentence people are greedy!
are you trolling?! i am going to assume not so i'll answer.
That means they find it hilarious to pay a fee higher than 0.3$ for any amount they transfer!
They want to move millions with 20 -30 cents, they can't believe they missed the old days when you could do this and this is their problem.
maybe you are only using bitcoin to transfer millions but [newsflash] there are a lot of us who use bitcoin for a lot of other reasons, many of them small transactions.
and fees have not been 20-30 cents for a very long time. at the peak of spam attack fees are about $1 for a small transaction. so lets say i wanted to buy a VPN for a month and pay $4-$10 that $1 fee is not acceptable (read below why it is not)
I also think miners are people who need money, so paying a higher fee for me is not a problem.
we all know they are people but we also know very well that they are being paid $20,000 each block they mine. and this is why it is not acceptable.
fees are there for two reason:
1. compensate miners in far away future when block reward is small.
2. prevent someone from flooding the network with spam. and this one is hurting us.
people being mad is not just about them paying higher fee, it is about paying higher fee then have their transaction stuck, they paying higher fee and still being stuck, then raise it again next day and still get stuck.
people who have been using bitcoin for some time know this, but new members are always going to get stuck.
so yeah ... going mainstream has it disadvantages also.
we are a long way from going mainstream. and this has nothing to do with that. the adoption has grown and there are more transactions but not 100,000 unconfirmed ones. these are spam attack.
