I have never seen things slower, when does segwit activate?
Transactions now are depending on your fees, most of the online wallets now are asking for high fees if you want a faster transactions but if you go to lower fees that means that your transactions would be slower. Think of it as if you are sending a mail/package to someone. If you pay high price your mail/package would be first priority in the list that's because you are paying more than the normal service but if you just pay for a normal price of course you mail/package would be slower than the priority ones. They are also trying to earn from this fees, I know many people are outrageous about this but there is nothing we can do but to hope that the fees would be lower in the future or something would happen so that the transactions would be faster.