Yes. It's like blackmail.
Discussion
wow, interesting
RBF (replace by fee) or CPFP (child pays for parent) are there to help you offer bit more and encourage the miners to input your transaction pushing it onwards.
I personally believe it’s great solution for busy market.
In my 7 years send hundred or so transactions I’ve used it twice
i have a question: if it is a waiting game, is it because the block reward is smaller?
No not necessarily. If the block reward is smaller miners might be more aggressive picking it up. It’s a free (fee) market, supply/demand. I believe miners have never been paid this well for this long since the halving.
A tx sitting on the mempool is one of the safest places to be.
After I think 5 to 7 days it’s returned to the wallet if uncleared.