Gas prices are up. London only made the prices more predictable; high and predictable. "prices go high and low" is not a problems who's solution is "keep it high all the time".

The actual promised solution to high gas prices is sharing. Which got delayed behind proof of stake backed validation. Aka: delayed until other long delayed feature is shipped.

I guess other chain that use an utility token and main token have a better control over the transaction fee as compared as eth.