If Bitcoin transactions are faster now it is awesome
the speed of your transaction will always depend on the tramsaction fee that you put up but it also depend on network traffic .
When it comes to transaction fees, they may be seem cheap on a 500k transaction but they seem expensive on a small amount of transaction.
Yeah . Its wise to transact a large volum of coins if the fees are really high but if your only going to send smaller amounts then you could loose more in the fees but the fees will also depend on the current value of the cryptos . Its known that the fees will be cheap if the value of cryptos are not pumping .