It costs $2.50 to have your transaction go through in the next 10 minutes. It costs 50c to have it go through in the next HOUR. Bitcoins fee structure is wholly antithetical to its use as currency but TPTB in the mining ecosystem are making fantastic profits milking the fee rates.

Nobody is really using it as a currency when having any amount change hands costs on average a fancy coffee drink from a fast food joint.

Sure. My question isn't about what's theoretically possible. It's about what people are actually doing, which seems to be very far from the original vision.