Nah, I don't think that's the case.  It's true that if you want to buy bitcoin with fiat you'll probably have to do it through an exchange requiring kyc, but there are enough ways around that.  As a kind of extreme example, you could buy or sell bitcoin face to face with cash and that does happen, and no kyc is needed.  Plenty of people even use the currency exchange section on the forum to do deals as well.

All that aside, I agree with you.  I can't stand the kyc requirement on exchanges and I refuse to do it, but I wouldn't try to bypass any kyc procedures since I don't want to get snagged for fraud.  And I understand that exchanges *have* to abide by the rules of the gov't of the country in which they operate.  They don't have a choice, and as much as I hate it, that's how it is.