This is truth that this bullshit thing happened with you , and not only with you but also with many people that I seen .
About 4-5 friends in my circle told me to not to make withdrawal of bitcoin or transfer of bitcoin Because charge is high and problem of unconfirmation you will face ( about 5 days ago ) , but still I ignored them and made transaction with fee of 0.002btc (at hextracoin site) .
It was really stupid thing for me because at one side confirmation was not happening and at another side it got 0.003 btc with 0.002btc fee .
I think that was a temporary problem of unconfirmation that why the people were facing big fees as Well as problem of unconfirmation but now I don't think it will happen after segwit2x experient .