@nixCraft post looks like it's since been deleted and I can't tell if it's a troll from the imgur they linked

imgur.com/a/BsIiWpi

others in the comments have this right, that KYC is often a load of crap anyway

How thinking people have let moron led processes become the arbiter of legitimacy and identity is beyond me.

As usual, any "improvements" to KYC processes, punish all users, to protect against the bad behaviour of startlingly few actual bad actors