No, we're in the same boat with both.
Being private doesn't exempt you from KYC and the same things they're doing around Bitcoin.
What exempts you is creating black markets.
Discussion
In short time, there will be no way to kyc xmr users since all platforms that kyc have banned it, very very few kyc platform still doing it in US (I think there's no way to get it in EU with an exchange you can correct me on that)
the fact that xmr pretty much is alive outside the system, and thriving (xmrbazaar is amazing).