I don't think there is enough mining power to process the blocks which will keep transactions backlogged for a long time.
https://cash.coin.dance/blocks The last block that was completed was 4 hours ago.
Nobody is mining because the price is too low compared to difficulty. It's not worth it.
The sluggishness of this coin is probably the only reason why it's still trading relatively high on some exchanges. The coins are having trouble getting to their destination
It's all fine. Your fee of 0.0005 per kb is too low to be confirmed in the first block. I have a transaction with a fee of 0.002 pending for over an hour. This network is just that slow with 1 block per hour on the average. Patience!
But do you think this situation will change with time? After all, if there are blocks like this we are slow, then once we can get a failure. And this will inevitably lead to loss.
Nobody can know that. The value would have to increase for people to start mining it and as a result decrease confirmation time.