At least I'm not paying too much in fees, since I'm using a segwit wallet.
Besides that, I also haven't noticed too much of a delay in confirmation times, but I'm not issuing many transaction regularly, so other people might have a different experience.
I haven't had any issues at all as well. It is still quite cheap, and transaction confirmation is very quick.
Perhaps this huge amount of transactions is a indication that bullish sentiments is already here and the price will continue to go up. I haven't check the hash rate though, but I'm assuming that it is some miners started to warm their rigs now as we are closing $6000 and probably mining will be profitable again.