And why should you look for an alternative if you are already used to Kucoin? You have not tried to pay another person to pass KYC on the Kucoin exchange.
It is safer to trade on the exchange on an account with KYC. I heard that soon all exchanges will force users to provide their documents. And it makes no sense for you to constantly change the exchange for trading.
I don’t think the safety is actually worth it considering the risk of losing ones identity, yes there are many cases where the KYC platform might be used to fish out a certain crime but at this tender age of bitcoin and the government continues disdain against it, then it will be at risk to get exposed as a bitcoiner. Although bitcoin isn’t frowned upon in the US where OP stays but imagine someone from a place or country where it is frowned then it will be tricky or risky to use KYC exchanges. So I would just say OP should rather go for not only non KYC platforms but also the decentralized exchanges, they provide more anonymity if you actually care for you privacy
I am now using MEXC exchange which does not require KYC maybe OP can try it?
It is actually a two way platform with an option of non KYC which has its daily withdrawal limit at 30bitcoin but requires KYC for more trading volume which is of two different phase too the Primary KYC and the secondary according to their
site. With a setup like this i doubt if the non KYC users can actually see do P2P, because this is the same thing KuCoin actually was before going almost full KYC