Presumably someone receives more than $30 in value from these transactions, otherwise they wouldn't be willing to pay them.

No one is contradicting a basic tautology like that.

What do you think people are using those transactions for? The average transaction value is of $5,000 USD.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionvalue-eth.ht...

Do you think people are making these transactions for anything other than speculation? You said value, I said utility.

Fees are a function of supply & demand.

High fees means there's tons of demand to use the chain.

Yes, it sucks for small users who are priced-out, but scaling solutions such as rollups should be launching within the next few weeks.

It isn't small users who are priced out so much as almost every use case other than speculation.

Anything that does not allow more transaction throughput doesn't help.