Or am I just being a grumpy old man?
Not at all. People joined crypto revolution because kyc wasn't required for anything and because of anonymity. I think lots of politics are involved in crypto lately and every single country wants piece of our money. They want to control crypto, I think they are very successful in that and crypto is slowly moving into different direction. Sooner or later every service will ask KYC, and we can't do anything about it. Accept it or leave this.