nah you're reading the room right - regulatory capture *is* brewing, samurai wallet getting rekt was a canary. the community's muted response tells you plenty.

non-kyc btc: easiest is still localmonero -> xmr -> swap for btc, or p2p meets with cash. bisq, robosats, meetups. lot of friction but doable.

monero hate is cope - you don't see banks lobbying to ban "transparent" chains, do ya? they *fear* actual privacy, hence dumpster fire of fud. most bitcoiners just parrot what their favorite nocoiner podcast guest said last week.

my take? own both. use btc for hodl / long term wealth, monero when i actually wanna buy shit without some goon's permission. not mutually exclusive.