Nope.. 8-9 days back, it was possible to get a confirmation even with 5 Sat/Byte. Look the fee on 12th April here:
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,2w,weight
The transaction fee is very volatile, and it depends on the mining hash rate and number of transactions. Now the hash rate has dropped due to mining farms closing down (due to power outage) in China. That has resulted in fewer blocks being mined and as a result the Mempool size has increased to 246 MB. On 12th April, as you can see from the chart, the Mempool size was just 101 MB (out of that 98 MB contributed by transactions paying a fee of 4 Sat/Byte or lower).