first of all please stop reporting your fees in terms of USD (fiat in general) or even in bitcoin. the correct unit to report fees is amount per size. you can choose any number of them like satoshi/byte or satoshi/kilobyte or....
since you shared you transaction ID we can see it is 223 sat/B.
now to answer your question, sadly because the scaling solution that we adopted for bitcoin is not being used (practically no one is using SegWit) the capacity didn't increase. additionally we don't yet have any second layer solutions such as Lightning Network since it is not ready.
and finally the block size increase was also rejected (the SegWit2x solution) which is why we are in this mess right now.
unfortunately there is nothing you can do except either paying higher and higher fees or not making any transactions for a while.
ps. don't fall for the bitcoin cash bullshit. it has the same exact problem. but it is dormant because nobody uses it yet.
Thank you, Is SegWit2x coming on the 28th December
http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/12/19/segwit2x-old-new-bitcoin-hard-fork/For now do you reckon the fee of 223 sats will confirm ? Should I increase this even more
no that is not SegWit2x, that is an imposter project using the same name. if you check the specification of it, they are creating something very different!
- changed the algorithm to X11
- changed block times to 2.5 minute
- changed address format.
and worst thing is that their launch is in 7 days from now and there still is no source code available for the project to be reviewed and tested.
if you look at the links at the bottom of their website, they are all "social media" links such as forums, instagram, twitter, facebook,... all used for advertising it. and no source code!!!
as for your fee, based on this site:
https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ you should increase it to 900 satoshi/byte if you want a fast confirmation. obviously that is ridiculously high! you can use one of the transaction accelerators like
https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ instead but they are also overcrowded.