Literally a few bucks doesn't buy a single transaction fee now. The article mentions that sacrificing gas fees of up to US$100 to buy a $221 image of a bee or having to purchase a minimum amount of governance tokens to properly participate in a DAO of your choosing isn't a good experience for newcomers. If you think fees will never be fixed, fine, but otherwise it's giving people a false impression of crypto.

That's how I started learning. I was researching online anonymity and Monero was the 'gateway drug' (yeah, not Doge or even Bitcoin) into the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem. There's a lot to learn just setting up an account on an exchange, and in respect to anonymity, many on-ramp gaps have been closed fairly recently (as a result of the explosion in popularity in early 2021) so those seeking such things are increasingly pushed to less-trustworthy fringe services (no judgement on the right- or wrong-ness of any aspect of this) where you may just be kissing your fiat goodbye - but then those seeking anonymity are probably OK with a certain level of risk.

You would learn way too fast that it lacks any purpose ! Better spend time and money learning all the way to shuffled tokens online before learning the final lesson: most people dont recognize the value you spent on them.