This mempool congestion is annoying but luckily it shouldn't affect me too badly. I paid a much lower than usual fee today to transfer half a coin to one of my OTC dudes because I anticipated a possible Xmas dip and I liked $44k. I needed to give the taxman his monthly pound of flesh and have some extra bank money to cover utilities etc while I'm in Mexico. Surprisingly it confirmed quickly.
Did you pay the median fee of 200 sats/Vb if so it will confirmed quickly but it costs more than 10$ per transaction.
and same as you this ordinal is really not stopping in the short term maybe next year the Bitcoin block can really cooldown
anyway weekly candle update

Bitcoin is really wants to break the 45K level but its seems hard tho It can be broken easily if the good news about ETF is coming. so keep an eye guys