Looks like you're not a fan of ethereum so you didn't get all that info, basically this POS upgrade is considered the biggest ever but it is just a stepping stone for ETH to adopt larger upgrades in the future. Honestly, I don't know when the ETH roadmap is actually 100% complete, probably never will. Recently Vitalik also announced other ETH upgrades in the future. ETH's biggest problem right now is not gas fees but its concentration, hopefully Vitalik will have a solution for this.
There's many news has been talk about ETH merge many times until now, but there's no progress at all and still Ethereum can't fix their expensive fees. I think Vitalik Butterin already enjoy to hold most of Ethereum and many people still using this token, so he doesn't care with the merge development. It just add more work for him, so he will just wait until there's really need for improvement e.g. when less people using ETH, this merge will want to attract them back.What makes you think that Vitalik does nothing? it's like he's killing his own child, once users have left your project meaning they have lost trust in the project there is no reason for them to come back. As many have said the merger is just to help ETH use less energy and deflate. The gas fee reduction will be resolved in the next year's upgrades, but many traders also said that the gas fee has also been reduced somewhat and is no longer as expensive as before.
