Gas fees on MetaMask! How do people do it?

So I thought I would jump on and look into getting some tokens. Now I moved some Eth to MetaMask all good but cost nearly £40 to do so! Now I’m on there and want to get some different tokens and the gas is just crazy the lowest I have seen it is £60 odd quid! Seriously! Why? How does anyone afford this? Is there not a better way?