OK, I'll post this in my oldest account to show I've been around here for a while (1996 selling, even further back as a buyer - I remember when it was AuctionWeb). Yeah, I remember being pushed into PayPal, and not liking it - but the history of PayPal 'coercion' is a little more complex. See, Ebay had its own auction-payment service, Billpoint, as I recall, which Paypal was beating head-to-head, because it was better and sellers AND buyers were using it instead of Billpoint. So what did Ebay do? Bought Paypal, killed Billpoint, and Wah-Lah (as us uneddykatid Texans say it), no more competition AND the power to stick it to the eBay community with impunity! Then they made it mandatory, disallowed us saying we would take personal checks in our listings (how are they going to double their cut if we go around Paypal?), etc.
And there are so many other ways eBay as shafted the 'small' seller over the decades. Yes, we built it for them, but now they don't need us. They've got China! All the rest of you riff-raff can go to Etsy and curl up and die, as far as eBay is concerned now. We are free to lick up the crumbs from under the table if we want, be we dassn't question the big bosses! All us small sellers are just cockroaches to eBay now. I've been learning to deal with it for about 10 years now.
