No problem. I was just in exactly the same predicament, close or not to. I haven't FC in a long time and avoid it as much as possible. Just jacks up the overall fee.

I hear that the fee negotiation process has been refined a little in later versions of LND.

If you run LND, you can set the node's fee policy from conservative to economical in lnd.conf it supposedly would help on negotiating a lower fee-rate. As I understand.

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bitcoind.estimatemode=ECONOMICAL