Please, if you find gas price too high, set it lower. There has been no problem getting transactions included in within minutes with 1-2 Gwei price.

There are several miners accepting much lower prices than default, encourage others to join by not accepting high price. Price is not determined by some central committee.

Everybody, please take some responsibility of your own actions instead of complaining. That said, price selection could be more intuitive and not hidden under advanced settings in some of the wallet user interfaces to encourage users to think about the issue.