Small fees will never make transactions faster and you may have to wait even 1 or 2 days for your transaction to get confirmed and if you want faster confirmation then add higher fees and your transaction will get confirmed in around 30 minutes.
Absolutely agree. Blockchain have 16,000+ unconfirmed transactions now -
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions, not 3,000-4,000 as year ago.