Anyone else feeling the Easter long weekend gets the worst traffic of the year?

Typically if I'm visiting my family the drive is about 2.5 hrs. On some public holidays, Christmas included, that can be 3 or 3.5 hrs.

Today I cancelled my trip after being stuck in traffic 20 minutes with an estimate of 4.5 hrs total for the trip. It's insane. I remember similar times from other years too. Only this time with this petrol situation I'm just not doing it.

I don't understand why??? Is this the only long weekend of the year? What gets into people's minds?