It's not only for the rich.
But the base layer itself doesn't scale to 8 billion people. This has been known since 2009 on Bitcoin Talk forums.
Discussion
There are solutions for this, unfortunately a minority want to cause problems on the network and fortunately they can do so.
Yes
Tell them Lyn ππΎππΎ
No. We need a more robust L2 or L3 in due time but these ordinals idiots are fucking the base layer up way ahead of schedule when the current solution is still weak