You are right and it is really odd but it started happening before bitcoin was at $3000. For some strange reason the one day all of a sudden everyone's transactions started going through after waiting 10 days. Now I an spend 0.001 and it goes within an hour or so and that for me is fine.
Transaction delays does make a person want to sell or purchase Bitcoin though with Bitcoin transactions having a negative impact on the price, the price of bitcoin will only affect the price short-term. There is a general view that Bitcoin will have a very expensive price in the near future and the cost for the transactions are nothing compared to it right now.
Transaction delays is because of the too many transactions in the blockchain that can't be processed at the same time, this delays of transactions is not affecting the bitcoin's price. But the fluctuation of the bitcoin's price is the one affecting the transaction fee, the more the bitcoin's price is increasing the more the transaction fee is increasing also, and yeah, in the near future, the transaction fee would be higher more than what it is right now, but it is not that expensive since the bitcoin's price will also increase.
Yes they all got clogged up like a blocked drain.