I was lucky too for not opening account in FTX exchange because I think Coinbase is Top exchange for its reliable security system and and it is listed on Nasdaq exchange of USA which makes it accountable to its regulators as well as its investors. The 2nd best in my opinion is Binance because they have highest number of listed coins/tokens pairs as well as they secure assets of their account holders by insurance fund. These are the reasons I prefer to deal with these 2 exchanges.
Nearly the same reason, I believe Binance is the best one and have been using it since it first started, and ever since that day I never had the need to use any other exchange.
I remember there was this token gifted to me because of some things I did, not airdrop but like a friend basically, and I wanted to sell that and it was in one weird low level exchange, I registered and sold it and took my cash out, but its obvious that we are talking about a horrible one, after a month or so I heard that that exchange closed up and said they were hacked too. So, I can easily say that its too common and Binance is literally the only place I can trust, but I understand coinbase too.