I remember reading about a gas limit increase. I haven't experienced a slow confirmation speed yet, but so far I have only transmitted my mining income to a wallet and then some to exchanges. I'm glad I haven't experienced one of those slowdowns yet. My worst was a BTC transaction using electrums highest fee taking 2 days. I ended up pushing it using child pays for parent. What a pain.

But honestly compared to an ACH transaction it is amazing! Even wire transfers are frustrating. I made a wire transfer for $800 from chase to coinbase awhile ago and got grilled for 10 minutes on the phone by an angry sounding New York based Chase employee even though I had sent many transactions in the past to the same account. It finally sent 8 hours later.