I would not be surprised if another attack occurred. However, the recommended fee is still higher than usual.
Looks like the attacker ran out of money, and probably ended up at net loss, next time they should think twice before attacking bitcoin.
The recommended fee is an average, so it needs more datapoints until it smoothens out and gets lowered.
I can now send a small transaction with 10k satoshi again so it should be ok.
The crazy cap is the reason why the network can be attacked without much money. With segwit it will be worse.