As of block 788550 the #bitcoin mempool contains about 343,600 unconfirmed transactions.
An estimated 265,587 transactions or ~77% appear to be related to ordinals, filling over 39% of the total mempool storage space.
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total #mempool size: 156 MvB
ord transactions size: ~61 MvB
addtl. miner fees: 964,042,046 sats
Good for the miners.
This scheme would keep then profitable after the halving.
Use lightning
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It's an additional Bitcoin in chain fees just for ordinals related transactions!
Yup, it sucks for everyone but the Miner's