I am not even sure whether they will really destroy the said KYC data after everything is processed and verified. You know, private companies, especially big firms with huge market shares do not really do what they tell the customers, and so I'm still not certain as to whether Bitpay would really delete the data after all. And yeah, this is already expected from a service based in the US for full compliance. They really are choking the mainstream players and making the playing field uneven. If all things fail, btcpay and OpenNode aree still free from the constraints of KYC in the mean time.