Something is brewing in the Bitcoin world? For the last 2-3 days I can I witness slow transactions and huge fees. I got used to 1sat/byte transactions and they always get through so I sent a couple of sats to myself but you can't imagine how surprised I was when I saw my tx is ~75mb from tip! My wallet suggested a fee of 10sat/bytes! So, what's going on? Is this connected with that ordinals mumbo-jumbo?

There's a change quite alright from the transaction fee recommended but still yet that does not mean you shouldn't adjust to your desired priority which the dept and time taken will be the determinant as expressed on the mempool, so if i were you, all i will first do before making a transaction is to check on the mempool first through mempool.space and see how busy it was abd also check the recommendations for the three priorities before sending my transaction, also you can adjust the charges by pumping it should it case you experience delay in time of confirmation, but to be honest the said amount of charges is still affordable because it's still within zero point in USD, meaning not upto a dollar you're being charged.