Demand for blockspace on the most decentralised blockchain that ever was / ever will be, is not going away.

Looks like it

1sat/vb were getting through before ordinals started

Yes. If you look at the blocks you can see all the abnormally large txs.

Great for lightning adoption, maybe next cycle newbies start immediately buying their first sats on LN, ecosystem seems to be ready imo. On top if this trend continues a lot of new miners will come to make Bitcoin even more secure.