The way I see it, it can go in one of the two following directions:
a. The company will try to be lawful and do everything according to the legislation, so the authorities will eventually force them to do all this crazy shit.
b. The company will cease to exist, like eXch did. I could also use the silkroad example, but let's not have this conversation about silkroad because it was a very ambiguous situation.
It isn't only you who sees it like this, count me in as well. As of now, running an exchanger without KYC and regulations applied will eventually lead you either to cease your operation completely or comply with their rules and stay up and running. The case of Silk Road is a bit different, at least from my point of view, since it was a market where anyone could sell illegal things and services, while eXch wasn't. They just don't like this anonymity, and everywhere they can find it running well and honestly, they want to take it down by any means necessary. They will even invent "reasons" for this purpose, as they already do.
The thing is, what can we do to prevent this from happening? Nothing, you will say, and it's most likely the correct one.😢🤬