Ethereum is cheap now?

When did eth gas and fees get so cheap?

Just over a year ago, I found random $hoge in a wallet. Like $9 the price never went up or changed. And I wanted to get it out, I tried a couple times that year and each time it tried to charge me $21 in gas to transfer $9 and then ever since I have been in crypto, eth has always been very high gas. What changed?