I got caught up in this back in the day - I think I spent under 1 ETH on them at least.
It's the damn gas fees I can't stand with doing anything on Ethereum. Steem is so much simpler for this sort of thing.
I wonder if my gen 4s will be worth anything someday? That's the 'deepest' I was prepared to go.
Yes, gas fees are a bit of a killer for small and frequent transactions... for large transactions, it is not a problem. However, that is a problem for PoW chains... dPoS and PoS have other problems though....