If you noticed well the way things have been going on with the transaction fee these days, it will drop and after some time increases, the high fee is actually a benefit on the miners, they would have experienced low income for the past before this kind of opportunity comes in for them to have higher preference on transaction fees, it's not expected of us to say bitcoin network is failing yet since we have everything working as the protocols states.
I can still say it boldly that even if there's nothing done about this ordinals challenge, it is still a millions times better than the local traditional fiat transaction fee we have been paying over years, but i will say that a little more patience is needed to see what may comes in after this, almost everybody is being affected in this.