While technically true, I wonder if people care much about a $1 fee on an entire contract (100 shares).

The fee can still be very significant, especially once you engage into complex options strategy (e.g. call spread / put spread / iron condor). That tends to trade in significantly larger quantity (e.g. you can have a 50x call spread), in which the fee is now $100 ($50 for buying a call and $50 for selling another call).

Most of the time you'd be trading more than one contract, though. Say you want bet on cheap out of the money options, you could easily see a commission of $10 - $50 on a single trade if you buy up a bunch of them.

I guess if you’re buying lottery tickets at $.01-$.02 per contract it’s be a 50-100% change in costs.