I personally wasn't expecting this, especially with their neighbor (UAE and Bahrain) doing the total opposite.
I think so too. We will have to see what influence this has in the area, but I do not think that the United Arab Emirates, with the amount of business that Dubai moves with cryptocurrencies, will change its policy. I would like to think that eventually in Kuwait they will realize their mistake and reverse the policy but you never know.
Most Gulf countries are like that actually - if crypto is not improving their economy by supplying an influx of blockchain companies and startups, they'll just ban it and be done. Most of these countries do end up reconsidering their bans as the crypto landscape changes shape and new policies & developments are made (the most infamous example being Russia which has banned and unbanned crypto no less than four times over the last 10 years).
Lol. Let them take a cue from Dubai then, instead of beating around the bush.