Of course I, as a crypto currency trader, wants an easy, safe, practical and efficient exchange, the KYC problem for me is not a problem, it is something that will protect us from actions that will harm the exchange and ourselves, many people complain about KYC, they feel that their privacy KYC has been disrupted.
I want to see volume first because if they have a great volume and they are not faking it, I can conclude that they are a good exchange.
Every exchange claim that they are the safest exchange but actually no exchange is safer from hack, but with the volume, they can't claim if they don't have the evidence which we can easily.
We do not need to make an account on every new exchange and deposit our money there. The prices of altcoins are almost similar across exchanges and therefore it is not require to do trading on new exchanges. The new exchanges are only useful for any shitcoins to be listed there as there listing fees are less than the reputed old exchanges.