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RE: The reason Bitcoin is having scaling problems is because it is actually being used.
One real reason for Bitcoin's current problems is due to "money laundering" on the blockchain. That is, mixers take in amounts and split them up into tiny portions and mix those with other people's balances who are also trying to hide where their Bitcoin came from. At the end, larger amounts of mixed coins are dispersed among a number of new addresses under control of the original holder (minus some fee for the mixing).
This is artificially adding tens of thousands of unnecessary transactions to the Bitcoin blockchain every day.
This is an after thought; to create some kind of anonymity for bitcoin and it shows a design flaw that must be covered over with a work-around, in my opinion. Nothing more.
Except it shows there are much newer better designs for cryptocurrencies today that would not require this operation be carried out, because the groundwork is already laid for anonymous transactions.