Remember how Coinbase, the San Francisco-based startup which raised more than $200 million in venture capital, put a freeze on my money? Whether it was out of incompetence or an attempt to save itself from selling at an inflated price (at one point, the price of Bitcoin was $3,000 higher on Coinbase than on other exchanges), this was exactly the kind of thing Bitcoin was supposed to prevent.
Um no, I don't think so.
Coinbase.com is not the Bitcoin experience, just like Facebook is not the internet experience. Nothing in the Bitcoin whitepaper mentions Bitcoin solving problems inherent with a central currency Exchange or hosted, custodial wallets.
Use localbitcoins.com and a non-custodial wallet if you want to experience Bitcoin per it's original specification.
Exchanges != Bitcoin.