If you happy with the traditional banking system, you would be happy to use Circle, it’s as simple as that. They dance to the government’s tunes and adhere to all the KYC and AML regulations. If you want to pay some premium fee’s on top of normal Bitcoin use for some reason, feel free to use them. <Tax>

They are the vanilla Fiat banking system, with a Blockchain skirt.   

This reminds me of changetip finding out after a poll that BTC made people less likely to use them, so they featured USD tipping despite the hardship regulations could bring. This isn't directly beneficial for bitcoin but even for the few people that are going to find out about it's existence though an service they use I'm confident that it's worth it. If people trust circle for non bitcoin uses, finding out about bitcoin through a trusted app is going to be a good introduction.

Probably they are interested in hiding all the things that are too complicated for a non-tech users  . Just as windows did with MS-DOS, and then later windows 8 hiding more and more things (folders, configuration options etc.).

So what is the general consensus of buying bitcoins? I still use circle and am worried about this... I would prefer to use exchange sites like local bitcoins, but they don't have any users in the town I'm in currently

Coinbase has to follow the same rules under KYC/AML guidelines. So there's no big difference. Both will close your accounts and freeze transactions immdiately if they think something is suspicious. Just have read at r/Bitcoin of how many people complained about coinbase and their service.

Circle Gets First ‘BitLicense,’ Releases CirclePay, New Service

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/09/22/circle-gets-first-bitlicense-releases-circlepay-new-service/

Well let's see how things will develop.Their idea to push Bitcoin into the background is not new and Abra I think is doing the same.So what both are doing is converting dollars into bitcoin, sending the transaction through the network and at the other end convert it back to dollars.

The only reason why we have these payment processors are to make Bitcoin user friendly for the general public, because they are used to 3rd parties handling their money for them and to make it "government

friendly" .... Those people who are allowed to apply their own mind, can use Bitcoin without these services. Why do you need 3 tools to do the job that you could have done with one tool? Most of these services

are operating from areas, where regulations are in place to stop them from using any other payment option, if they do not adhere to it... if that makes sense. You pay them to adhere to these regulations. 

Honestly I don't think many people will adopt circle as a payment program just because they don't really have a reason to.

Yup. There's already a Paypal and it works fine for most. I don't really get what they're trying to achieve by sticking a USD layer on top. There's a thousand options for that already.