The price went up significantly for fees.
It didn't. The mempool was empty 24 minutes ago, meaning everything with the minimum fee of 1 sat/vbyte was confirmed. The current next block fee rate is only higher than this because we haven't found a block in 24 minutes. Just make your transaction with 1 sat/vbyte and it will likely confirm within the next hour. If you are unlucky and it doesn't, then it will confirm overnight when the mempool empties out again.