Users treat exuberant fees as a defacto liveness failure. To those users Ethereum was down for all of 2021.  Ethereum fees were so bad that 99.5% reliability but guaranteed low cost was better, and thats how solana managed to get pmf.

Using Ethereum was prohibitively expensive in 2021 which led me to explore and tinker around on Solana more 

There’s design tradeoffs that each Ethereum and Solana made which resulted in their respective issues. For Eth, it was high fees. For Sol, it was downtime. Neither are perfect but we’re lucky to have both.

Stay Curious // iixii // Head of Crypto at https://www.lazertechnologies.com/  // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based @basedevo

explored solana because the eth fees too and found that solana was not too much dev friendly (now it is a bit better) and really don't love how some programs are centralized or how you need to pay extra fees for storage on too of network fees, mixing both in gas is better imo