Who ever said it was user-friendly and who said you should come and participate?
During the wait I looked to arm myself with knowledge about how to safely hang on to my coin, so I immediately withdrew it from Coinbase and sent it on over to Blockchain.info wallet
Maybe review your knowledge-gathering process before blaming something else.
Its always your fault with the bitcoin community. When you get scammed.. your fault. When your wallet gets hacked.. your fault. When the largest exchange runs off with your money.. your fault. When your funds get stole out of an escrow.. your fault. Bitcoin is not user friendly at all.. not even close.
Of course it's your fault! This isn't nanny-state protecting every idiot from the stuff he fcks up. This is pure self-responsibility. All the problems you list are (greedy) idiot problems. It's not that I didn't "lose" some coins myself, but I don't cry about it, I learn from it and therefore I'm not an idiot anymore. That process doesn't seem to work with all idiots, though.