but one thing is for sure, Coinbase, Circle, Xapo and other exchanges are companies that are getting frustrated, that's a fact, so they are at war. And they are in the business of making money, not some fatso anarcho idealist bullshit.
The way I see it is they want control over the flow of money, it's a power grab. They want to be the "new banking elite" which is contrary to what bitcoin is.
Coinbase CEO wanted to blacklist some coins from ever being spendable, for example.
They are dangerous and they are the very problem in the current banking industry that caused a need for something better.