...coinbase have confused their own business model and incentives by getting involved with a variety of shit products...
Don't understand why you think that they "confused" their own business model?
I don't want to defend Coinbase, only try to look at them like at any other business which aims to be profitable, so the only goal they have in the end is revenue.
At the very beginning, it was one of the few places where you could buy or sell BTC with FIAT using payments like bank wire or credit card to make it easy for everybody. Later they aimed at newcomers to help them buy their first BTC, but today we are 10 years further and the crypto market has changed beyond recognition. We have almost 6000 cryptocurrencies, 400 exchanges, dozens if not hundreds of custodial and non-custodial wallets, ATM's, OTC, P2P, swaps and many other ways to buy, sell, exchange, take a loan, give a loan, and do hundreds of other things with our BTC while using many different payment options available.
In my opinion, if they did not go with time, but stayed only as a place to buy and sell BTC and didn't add the exchange, all these new cryptocurrencies, officially became a wallet (although they were treated in such a way anyway), they wouldn't be currently a tycoon on this market. Who knows if they would still exist?
One could argue now whether they really need BSV, XRP, or any other shitcoins and as Bitcoin supporters, we may not like it, but in the end, Coinbase is just another business that is fully profit-oriented.
Of course, coinbase has discretion regarding what kind of shit that it pumps and the various business practices that they employ.. I don't really see any need to defend them, even if I might not have been exactly fair to them.. why give any shits about whether they could have still been a profitable business without going so far down the shitcoin road? I am surely NOT asserting that they do not have the right to do whatever the fuck they want with their business, but I am not going to praise them or try to give them some kind of benefit of the doubt as a whole... no need for that, ... but sure, just like coinbase can employ discretion in regarding which shitcoins they offer and some of their other lame-ass decisions, you also have discretion to defend them... I suppose.
jbreher likes to pump them up too, I wonder why that is?
He might want to chime his picnic bear ass into the mix, as well.