I was about making a withdrawal transaction some time ago on the ethereum chain, and the service fee was approximately the amount of the withdrawal I wanted to make.
Is this normal or was the platform dubious?
I have to say this is becoming old news at this point and ETH is still the second biggest coin by rank and it still has billions of dollars worth of moves going around each day. Which is a proof that it is not actually "high", I mean sure it is high compared to many other things, bank transfers, other coins, payment processors like paypal, compared to all of them ETH is super high. However, we have to realize is that demand is the reason why it is high, which means that there is enough demand to keep it this way.
If people didn't really like it, well nobody really likes it but at least accepted it, then we would not be able to keep the gas fee this high, people would left or stopped because it is high. Since the price is not going down and the gas fee is not going down neither, it means that people have accepted the fact that what ETH provides worth paying this much gas fee.