This reminds me of some old people in my country who say that communism was the best thing in the world, they had most things provided, they never had to worry about a job or having a place to live, the collapse of the communist government was the worst thing that has happened to them. Sure, there were some problems, maybe you couldn't buy a new car and only had oranges once a year and people elsewhere were going on holidays to the balearics while you had to content with the black sea if you were lucky and the local police station agreed to let you borrow a passport for a couple weeks, but the advantages overall outweigh the disadvantages. To them, people trying to change the system were the bad people - after all, communism
REALLY worked well for them, and the winds of change came and the government-secured factory job or subsidized apartment, gas and electricity disappeared. World went to shit for them. Of course change was bad.
And yes, unfortunately the way to fix the tipping problem is to stop tipping. It will be miserable for people like yourself, but if you can't afford to live on a shitty non-tipping wage, you will leave and do something else. Your employer will run out of staff, or will get the worst staff on earth willing to work for a dollar an hour. Even if you decide to stay and live out of your car, you won't be happy. The restaurant will suffer because the staff won't care any more and it will start hitting the owners directly. So wages will increase. It's not rocket science.
That's how unions are formed, that's how people revolt, that's how people start caring about the political side of things and finally make the change happen - they have to be unhappy about the current system first.
And it is a parasite system on some societies - I'm glad you're on the happy side of it, but the system needs to change anyway.