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.
conservativetoeconomicalinlnd.confit supposedly would help on negotiating a lower fee-rate. As I understand.