The official Eth foundation, as well as prominent influencers in the space did promise it, and the Shanghai Upgrade was supposed to be when those benefits could start being implimented.  Now did they bail on that promise? Quite possible.  The issue with rollups is who is a money transmitter from a legal risk 

 a stage 1 rollup does not have custody of your funds. you can unilaterally exit even if the rollup infrastructure completely shuts down. stage 1 rollups are not money transmitters any more than non-mining bitcoin nodes. 

 cool, tell that to Samarai prosecutors. he didn't have custody