[sweetbitter]

You got brainwashed into believing this by Reddit. Back in 2017 when Bitcoin was utterly crippled in usability and scalability, the centralized forums upon which information was flowing were seized by bad actors and used to manufacture this narrative. Bitcoin was intended to be peer to peer money, not digital gold.

[coralreef]

Peer to peer money (low transaction cost, high scalability) is not immediately possible without tradeoffs to decentralization.

You can increase block sizes to a degree, but that threatens decentralization by making it difficult/expensive for nodes to sync and store the chain.

We have an experiment called Bitcoin Cash and endless other forks promising low fees, but adoption has not followed.