Nah it isn't the first time that BTC fee skyrocket, but somehow if you badly needs to convert crypto into Fiat then yes try to use alt-coin for faster and cheaper transaction.
But I would disagree with you OP just because the Trans fee is high doesn't mean that it's useless.
and seems this is not relevant anymore today as the fees have gone down a lot already. try checking the
mempool and you will see that the sat/vB is quite low now even if you set it at high priority. i can understand last week but in the past couple of days, it is now more user friendly when it comes to fees.
what we can learn from this scenario is if you have no urgent needs, better pause your tx while the fees are skyrocketing, then just execute it once the network congestion subsides.