Total network fees high and individual low means higher volume of txs. All scaling solutions suffer if onchain fees are too high. There is no magic. Also with each new soft fork you increase complexity and new unintended consequences and attack vectors. The blocksize war was not about the size of the block, it was about control over the network. Either way I don't worry too much because if bitcoin gets to a point where fees are constantly high and pricing out everyone and making most utxos dust, even the ones against it now will ask for it.