Is this not the price paid for the trust, security, and utility that bitcoin brings? I don’t hear alternatives being suggested.
Utility: a transaction costs $10, right? It's useless.
Security: Have you followed this? The actual recommendation is to print your private keys and stick them in a vault.
Trust: It's funny that, fundamentally, people started doubting the Federal Reserve when the gold standard was abolished, because suddenly "value of money is just fiction". Yet here they are, imbuing some far more ephemeral nothingness with the same sort of faith-based value.
Most people are quite happy with trust-based currencies which don't have the proof of work overhead. Cryptocurrencies have their utility, but not for the whole population.