If you are going to use a big exchange in the future then you will need KYC. The only other way to get BTC will be on the black market. Would that put you off?
Probably 99% of them don't really care. I think most people just want the number to go up and nothing else. If this was chicken shit they were trading, it wouldn't make a difference to them (as long as the number goes up). Black market/Dark market is now running mostly on Monero I heard. So, if btc traders really cared about privacy they would have moved to monero instead.
I think you are right most people who have invested into Bitcoin do not understand it or care why it could be revolutionary instead they only care about how much it is worth. I think this is confirmed by the amount of topics we have talking about the price and not the fundamentals that make Bitcoin great. This place is filled with anxiety whenever the price goes down which makes me think they do not understand why and they do not understand why Bitcoin should recover. Bitcoin is not a good crypto if you want to act anonymously and I do not think that is one of the draws to Bitcoin like you say Monero has that advantage over Bitcoin.