I'd also venture that a decent amount of the people trading crypto today weren't familiar with traditional brokers and investing in the stock market. I'm one of

I'd also venture that a decent amount of the people trading crypto today weren't familiar with traditional brokers and investing in the stock market. I'm one of those people and truth be told I had no frame of reference for what is an acceptable fee schedule. I just wanted to trade, and did. Hopefully competition brings fees down, but for the longest time you really didn't have a lot of options when it came to finding an exchange that let you trade the coins you wanted.