Very well thought out.  Basically true only flaw missing is the reason governments are doing kyc is make work for new law enforcement government branches. (paranoid or what)    Same thing as full synching of ipad iphone imac itv  or android tablet pc.

Millennials and gen-x get vitimized via digital fraud a lot as they tend to trust the tech and don't realize  what a weasly scammer can do with it.  Older people  don't wantt the full connivence of being fully synched up as they fear  getting ripped off by it.

KYC  is needed for large money movers not little numbers.  But most of the world governments are still trying to make  the world into 2 groups the have and the have nots.  KYC  for any amount under 1000 usd is truly wrong

I would argue it is wrong for any amount under 100,000 usd value.  At certain wealth numbers it can be argued for since it would not create the demand for stolen info that 1000 or 500 limit does.

Some where I posted a list of btc addresses by value.  I will look for it.  Found it  and you can see setting the kyc at 100,000 usd means under 170,000  people need give kyc for all of bitcoin but setting kyc at 1,000  means over  3,300,000 would need kyc



So having that low level kyc threshold creates a lot of kyc info in a lot of places  only making more victims and more demand and more law enforcement.

I feel really sad for the people living in war-torn countries, like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Kashmir etc. Digital nomads can take shelter on neighboring countries as a Refugee. They don't have stable physical address to complete their KYC verification. 
Running your laptop on restaurant or airport is also risky and you can be a victim of identity theft. Even government controlled financial and treasury department can snoop on your financial records.
I find it difficult to complete KYC using selfie with required document and current date on a piece of paper. Cryptocurrency exchange, financial institution, fintech, virtual assets dealers might have geolocation tools to track your IP address. I agree that scammers can get KYC from black market. But if the company ask for re-verification then it will be hard for scammer to get payment from that company. Re-verification of phone number and email is very difficult for scammers. They can block or restrict scammers to withdraw tokens. One of the best example of this type of case can be found from Twitter. Twitter regularly suspend users if they detect any unusual activities like IP address change, use of 3rd party apps for system automation, or aggressive behavior(delete bulk message, likes, following or unfollowing) in a short period of time. 
Scammers are unlikely to spend their money heavily like prepared IEO. Startups businesses are not asking KYC at the beginning but will ask at the end of IEO. This is unethical approach and will lead to scam site. IF the company is working hard with skilled team and does not have any intention to scam people then they must clear the KYC requirement first.

On Binance users are allowed to have a withdrawal limit of up to 2 BTC per day without submitting personal documents. If you aren't a big trader, this limit is usually enough for normal users.

In front of KYC policy we also have to be protected from being your id steald.

I'm yet to see some valid arguments for KYC.

Those who want to commit fraud can make fake accounts bu using stolen or bought identities just like when facebook required you o register your phone suddenly thousands of accounts made in the poor countries were selling likes and follows. They were buying thousands of prepaid cards and pumping accounts for money.
KYC is pumping the market for stolen accounts and identities and being a nuisance for the average user.

One way I found to reduce identity theft with services that require personal documents are to make a photo copy of your documents and then writing the website or domain name onto the photo copied document, prior to handing it over to the website that requires it. You then scan the new document with the writing and forward it to the service. I have not had even one service that denied my documents, because they know what it was all about.

Yes, some people might say that with modern Photoshop software, this can be removed, but I want to challenge them in doing that with documents that was written on and they will soon find out that it would not be that easy and it will also leave some new metadata for the forensic software to be extracted, if it was later used in some crime.

Also, when a hacker gets hold of say 100 000 KYC documents, they would rather use the "clean" documents, than having to go through the whole process of the "cleaning" of your documents with your own water mark.

If the site does not want to accept the "marked" documents, then you know they want to use it in a KYC scam. If they ask you why you "edited" the documents, you just say that you want to track where your documents was sourced from, if it was leaked. You can also keep a copy of those documents as proof that you used it at a specific site, so it will be easier for you to trace, where the leak originated from. (Photoshop will leave some traces of the editing that was done and you might pick up which document they used at the new site.)  

what's the point to dwell on whether KYC is dangerous or useless if you can't omit it, at least when using reliable crypto services?

First of all, we all know that their personal significance is very important to every human being Specifically, passport, ID card, credit card information and more. Although many claims that they need to be verified to ensure their ownership While this is a good side there are many bad aspects to KYC, which is why I do not support it but sometimes it takes a lot of time to stop and give personal information.

That is correct, protecting our identity should be our focus than earning coins from bounties that are requiring KYC. I will never participate anymore in campaign that requiring my I.D.s because I do not want to be in danger. There are now many news in the internet that KYC in different platforms are being traded in the blackmarket and it is really a threat for those users who are uploading their identity in the internet.

I don't know, I've never participated in IEOs on Binance. Maybe you can ask this in Service Discussion (Altcoins) if KYC is required for IEOs on Binance.
I can imagine that it's different where the project is located.