I am always afraid to entrust to anyone my money when it comes to this staking, that is why I did not have an interest in it right now.
Staking is good if you know that the exchange could be trusted for the long term and did not run away your money. If staking is the only easiest way and probably more investors doing that right now but the fact they choose to invest BTC than this because they know that they are safe on it.
But those who have tried, I did not blame them that they always come to staking because they already earned on it.
there are staking platforms where you are in control of your keys so whatever happens to that platform your money is still safe with you. Why do not you try that? Usually these types of staking are not from exchanges but they are from wallets and crypto utility app.
The popular form of staking are still on exchanges like binance because of the wide variety of coins that you can choose from and different earning rates depending on your taste. Like you I am not a fan of it because no matter how trusted an exchange , it is still possible to get hi jacked and I think binance have been hacked before. Stakers should left something for themselves just in case something bad will happen.