As we all know that one thing that might hinder the acceptance of the bitcoin system for the government is the hidden identity of the members. Local exchange should do intensified KYC so as to avoid the system of cryptocurrency being abused by other members as well like money laundering, funding of terrorist groups and others as well. Some of the country had done this things already and the question is would favor to do KYC on your local exchange?
KYC is going to happen sooner or later on all regulated exchanges, regardless of what you think of it.
I would have to debate that implementing KYC will have nothing to do with lowering money laundering, nor will it make the users of the exchanges any more compliant. The main function of KYC/AML in my view is to still allow the government to keep track of people's trades better for taxation purposes, which is honestly not something that's negative.
But is it something that's going to all of a sudden legitimise bitcoin as a currency and shed a positive light on all exchanges as you suggest? Probably not. As regulations matures for bitcoin exchanges and services, verification standards will increase as well for sure. There is nothing that you can do to stop this from happening, or speed this process up.