That transaction "Congestion" was completely manufactured to create urgency and panic. Supply and demand works great, just let it.
Not surprised; generally wanting to know:
Was that by purposefully disregarding transactions, or purposefully flooding the network with transactions to create "fake demand"?
First "fake news"; now "fake demand"! It never ends!!!
It was transaction flooding. The intention was to create a fake congestion, not fake demand. Anyhow, I believe the system should be enabled to handle higher traffic.
Even at 8MB, the 100+ MB mempool at peak congestion fould be cleared in 2 hours. Then we are back to sub 1MB blocks.
Anti big blockers tend to calculate the full blocks for years on end, which artificially inflates the whole block chain size.