It is not coinbase issue but due to a lot of pending transactions in bitcoin network, you need to pay a high fee to get transaction confirmation. So most of the exchanges and wallets are charging these high fees and not sure where it will going to end.
If smaller amount then you need to use other altcoins for urgent needs.
Is there another way to get it out of there? I am not paying .25% of my money to them when I do not care how long it takes to get where I want it to go.
Avoid doing bitcoin micro transaction. It's not a wise thing to do now especially with the current phase (and also in the past). You will really end up paying high fees in the end.
We have nothing to do with that. Coinbase still charged around
BTC0.001 as fees and that is a usual fee*. It's just that
BTC0.001 in the past doesn't have the same USD value today so really expect a high fees.