The market had grown in a short span of time. And I think you are not yet late. You can still buy your BTC. As for the exchange there are still other platforms where you can buy such as bittrex, kukoin, coinexchange and a lot more. Just choose depending on your preferencs and which is more convenient alternative for binance.
Yes,theres a lot of exchanger to buy BTC and you can find the exchanger like binance and i know you can do it because you have a lot of experienced than me coz im a newly trader here.