Runes

I’m a bit confused by runes on BTC. The creator, Casey, basically said he created it to bring all of the memecoiner attention and associated fees to Bitcoin, which will increase the security of Bitcoin due to the fees they are paying (I don’t along with this) and reduce the need for other chains.

All I see is that BTC fees will be permanently much higher which will make bitcoin increasingly unusable and force people to actually use shitty L2 solutions like the LN, since a shitty solution with low fees is better than paying high fees.

So, is Casey just trolling BTC by trying to make it fail by exacerbating its weak points or am I missing something here?