These fees make using bitcoin unpractical. When people stops using it, Bitcoin should start losing its value... Some believes bitcoin will gain value because it is considered as virtual gold and a kind of investment even if it loses its "Money" feature.
Is bitcoin going to get fixed and make itself an easy and cheap payment method again?
Yeah nowadays the fees are very high specially if you are only sending small amount of bitcoins the fees will hurt your pocket. When some people stops using it as you said, fees will likely go down as number of transaction in the network decreases