If in 5 years, I want to send $5 to a friend, and the transaction fee is $50, obviously I can't do it.
The long posts in the tech forum about this talk about "off chain" services, but what could those possibly be? Whatever they are, I'd have to trust them and do business in whatever bit-bucks they issue, that they claim are redeemable for bitcoins, right? And if they told me they aren't giving me back my bitcoins because they think I'm a terrorist or something, what recourse would I have? None, right? Wouldn't we all be right back where we started, at the mercy of some big organization?
How is that not a total failure of what bitcoin set out to be?