This is why there are PayPal stealth accounts, most companies do kyc as a formality to appease governments/avoid legal troubles, or so to say they do the bare min to verify the information. That being said, they will enforce it if you get a big win... It's a risk either way. it's probably safer to assume all sites will require kyc unless they have a reputation of not. And it's safer to just not gamble if you're not comfortable providing it or risking your funds.
Here, you spoke my mind and I completely agree with you, alot of gamblers complain about kyc today, and what you said has always been my opinion, it's better to just stay away from gambling completely if kyc is a big issue for you.
Kyc (from my personal observation) will never go away, it will only elvove, maybe in the future, new technologies will be built or invented that will make passing kyc verification more easier and stress free, but then, it's something we all should already get used to as long as we are sending and receiving money on that internet, because aside from casinos, most exchanges have made kyc verification mandatory for all users before they allow any form of deposit or withdrawal.
One of the main reason on why crypto gambling had become that popular it is just because of its anonymous aspect on which you can really be able to tell that there would really be tons of people
who would really be rather prefering on playing without making their identity that being exposed. On the moment that crypto gambling boomed up then government will surely be wanting to regulate
everything on which this isnt really that a shocking thing anymore or something that new. This is why now these sites that had been before to be non-kyc but now they are really that neither asking
or there are specific conditions on which us gamblers wont really be having any choice but to deal up into those things on which we know that there's nothing we can do about it
with those changes.