There was a time when would have loved to buy Coinbase stock. Just a few years ago, they were by far the easiest was to buy crypto (IMO). At that time they also felt like the most legitimate site and for people who didn't 100% know what they were doing, but wanted to buy some Bitcoin, that perception of legitimacy is important. For those reasons, I feel like they kind of dominated the casual coin holder space, and I…
I agree with you, I think their coinbase pro fees are relatively reasonable, but I just don't see why anyone would use the "normal" coinbase, the fees are very high, I suspect it's probably name recognition, ease of use and trust.
Coinbase is just a money grab to extract money from people who don't know about Coinbase Pro. Really shady if you ask me and I'm surprised it doesn't seem to have damaged their brand name. The fees on "regular" Coinbase are outrageous and no one should ever buy through there.