The Bitcoin mempool is shocking, but I think it's a side effect of institutional buyers. They don't stack sats to self custody. They stack "BTC" which means it's in someone else's custody. This lowers the on-chain traffic.

All the ride or die freaks use lightning on nostr. It's certainly reduced my on chain transactions. Besides, million sat UTXO's are harder to obtain nowadays.

Where are all of the Ordinals bros?

They're on to the "current thing." In 2016 it was ICO's like dentacoin. Then it was NFT'ts and meme coins. Now the current thing is something else. IDK, PrezMemeCoins?