The $1.8B only represents US losses known and properly classified by the FBI, the real number for global losses will be much higher.
Either way two wrong's don't make a right, there will be losses in both systems but I would argue that storing your money with a unregulated crypto-firm would be more dangerous than with a modern-day bank.
I think the main gripe that many people have including myself with crypto is that it doesn't even have the proper consumer protections so that a decent/strong chance of recovery is possible.
This trend of massive amounts of crypto currency being stolen is not even a relatively recent one, see Gerald Cotten's (Quadriga) death in 2019 which resulted in $150 million in assets going missing with no chance of recovery.
This reply has been a little-bit scatter-brainish, so my apologies for that.