What stops a exchange from buying and selling a coin repeatedly to increase volume? if they don`t have to pay tx fees on transactions. They can manipulate volume numbers to promote coins they want to sell.
not only nothing is stopping them from doing that but also all of them are already faking their volumes in order to compete with each other and get a higher "rank" among exchanges. it doesn't have to be a constant buy/sell either there are other ways of faking the volume. it doesn't really affect the market that much though because traders don't look at volume, they look at price movement and if they are willing to buy in a way to increase the price (hence create the incentive for people to buy a certain coin) then so be it, there is nothing wrong with that since it is actual orders from their users they are filling!
What is the point from removing coins from exchanges? Why add them in the first place? I really wonder how many people have lost their coins due to exchanges doing this and not having a way to send the coins back to the user, The coins will die out on their own anyways if no progression is being made or people do not see the value in it anyways.
in practice this is not possible because you want to be able to trade somewhere and so you have to sometimes accept negative sides and the risks in order to continue trading. and that is why people are still using centralized exchanges despite them being risky or in some cases even shady. so when they lose money they still come back because they accepted the risk. in a way that is the price of wanting to trade.
Why not just keep your coins in your wallet?
that works but only for those who DONT want to trade and want to only make an investment (basically dump their fiat for bitcoin)
and exchange p2p? Now there is no middle man to take a cut from Joe trading apples with Sally for oranges.
P2P trading also has its own downsides, risk and problems. low liquidity, scammers, lack of speed,... and lots more are some of the issues you will be facing.