Very frustrated trying to send BTC from Electrum wallet

Hey!

I bought BTC a while ago and put it into an Electrum wallet. I'm now trying to move it from there to Cashapp and am having huge issues doing so. For the second time, my transaction has been cancelled and changed to "Local" status after being "Unconfirmed" for a while.

Why are my transactions eventually being forfeited after hours of appearing to work normally?

Another issue I'm having is being way too far back in the mempool queue. Because the amount I'm sending is very small, I don't wanna spend more than 1.1 sat/byte sending-- which I knew would mean it'll take a while to send, but it doesn't even seem capable of doing that.

I get how the market is very saturated right now and a TON of people are doing transactions which is slowing me down, but why the fuck does my transaction keep getting cancelled? I'm getting really pissed off that Electrum can't manage to hold down and eventually execute my Unconfirmed transaction.

Any tips or advice? Am I gonna have to raise the fee because of these issues just so it'll go through?? Thanks in advance if anyone can help out.