Personally I'm now less prone to do a btc transaction since the fee market has exploded and blockstream/sidechains aren't really available currently. I was enjoying speding btc with sites like humblebundle, but currently is really a pain. It's just me or you are on the same boat?
It definitely has. Once upon a time, I used to send transactions with *zero* fees, since the inputs were old and the transaction was a high priority one. That seems like ages ago to me. Now a days, I am very careful while using bitcoins and have basically stopped using them for micro transactions.