just like you, I am attracted to using FTX because they cover part of the fees for erc20 transactions and it really helps me. Moreover, they also have very low btc withdrawal fees.
It is their attractive hook to retailed users but when they go bankruptcy, they will make compensation partially for top investors, biggest users first. It's not fair and people should know that.
One more thing I did not like FTX months ago, is their Wash trading that is not a signal of a good and top exchange. When I experienced it, I did neither trade nor store big capital on FTX, honestly. Fortunately, it is how I avoided this bloody collapse.
Although some of them is not quite bad after all since they really deliver, but its just we should always put our minds that however trusted they are and how big the platform it is chances that FTX scandal may still happen on one of them. So better listen to people telling that don't save your money on exchange/platforms to avoid losing it better to save our funds on our hardware wallets to be more secured.
We can enjoy good offers from big exchanges, not from new ones. First, new exchanges can give you very high bonus, very attractive offers but we don't know will they disappear after a few weeks or months of operation. Second, about big exchanges, such as FTX, no guarantee for future. So take risk, take opportunities, enjoy it and exit as soon as possible.
new investors will certainly be attracted by the big prize offers. instead of getting a lot of benefits, but in the end you have to let the assets just disappear.
Even plebs can do the same mistakes like newbies. Because human instinct is unchanged and majority of the crowd can not control their greed and bad human instinct.