That's a good post you put up there, I have been trading with kucoin because i like the security been implemented on the exchange but I will soon move away from trading with them because of the KYC they want to implement soon. So i think for newbies it's good to always good with top volume exchanges and Bianance is good for any newbie to start with.
Binance and Etherdelta, anyway binance also needs KYC especially if you want to go in much higher amount maybe in the future since they have limits,but do start it works pretty well.