I only have an account there definitely don't make use of it to trade in daily basis, I do see all the FUD been said about them I won't recommend it for a newbies who wants to start trading.
I used Cryptopia to get Pillar before. So I can not say that it is hard to use, so newbies could use it. But the hacking event proved that exchange was insecure and we must stay as far away as we can.