Will platform fees fall quickly after this ordinal congestion rests?

Here's an analogous example: When fiat inflation skyrocketed this past year, rent prices everywhere decided to hold its hand on the way UP. However, it seemed to let go when inflation went back down and remained at that elevated level (and continues to rise, in many cases).

Would love to see a trendline of margins for these cryptocurrency platform companies before, during, and after the dust settles. How do we QC the legitimacy of this ordinal congestion over time to know these high fees are legitimate?

Where do these platforms sit on the index below?

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Instead of thinking of people paying transaction (tx) fees, think of it as a free market for block space. The world is bidding for the right to send a transaction on the bitcoin main chain. Block space is scarce, people want their tx’s confirmed. Paying 100,000 satoshis in order to get 100 bitcoin to someone else is a price most are willing to pay.