Whichever side of the block size debate you may be, this particular bitcoin headache (time between blocks) is still imho a problem. And it never gets debated, while ETH, which IIRC has a shorter time between blocks is busy stealing the show 
You were a bit unlucky there. On the other hand this is transaction i made today (https://blockchain.info/tx/991b67bc5f7772b8582150b465c654a09c06e42e26f03b801eb79b8d97cf915f)
it was confirmed as soon as i made it
literealy it took just like 1 minute to first confirmation :]Well that's the thing, when it comes to how fast a transaction confirms luck should not be part of the equation, at least not on a timescale of hours (seconds maybe ok). Bad for business, and limits what can be done. How fast a transaction confirms should be a purely auction based, and given enough fees applied to a tx, it should confirm within a second.
