That possible. The reason is that your text might never enter the mempool. the network is busy and never get free. To put it simply, your transaction might never get processed at all because the average fees are always higher than your TX Fees. So, you'll never be able to send your things with $1 when the average fees are $5. that continues forever.
I'm not sure to who you're responding in this post, but it has a lot of inaccurate information! It seems that you think there's a continuous and static amount of traffic at its maximum capacity, but that's not the case
[check "this" website].
- In addition to that, it looks like you've been using a wallet that has limited capabilities in choosing the Tx fee.