Bitcoin will not die any time soon . It may drop drastically in price and it may sky rocket in price . It really depends on who is backing it and how much money people or business pump into it . IT has massive support atm .
As your transaction delayed almost 3 hours. Why just because bitcoin improving that side of bitcoin. That people can transaction with high speed and there no issues in transaction. Now a day there a less number of service in bitcoin according to high rank in market. As they take an action against transaction therefore now they are going from SegWit2x for more fast transaction.