I will also leave Stake.com if they ever force me to complete all the steps of KYC verification. My Stake account is almost 5 years old. Although they haven't asked me to complete the KYC yet, but they offered me to complete the verification in order to receive extra bonuses. The last time I received this message from them on 9th March. I hope Stake team won't make the KYC mandatory for the old loyal users.
If indeed you don't want a bonus with the conditions for completing verification, then you don't need to worry about completing the verification.
Because so far I have used Stake.com and there have never been any problems regarding KYC and of course we can still rely on Stake.com as our favorite gambling platform and we can continue to be loyal customers there.
I myself have never won a big win and made a large withdrawal too, so I don't know whether later when making a large amount of withdrawals I will be asked for KYC or not because almost several casinos did not use KYC at first, but when a customer made a large amount of withdrawals they invoke KYC requirements for the withdrawals for more comfort and trust from both parties.
Hopefully in the future stake.com can always provide the best for each of their customers and continue to be a big, trusted casino.
In another casino to ask for withdrawal $2000+ it requires KYC but here someone has confirmed asking for withdrawal of around $10,000 without KYC
So you can take a comparison and don't need to worry especially because you say you are not a whale gambler but in the future no one knows
What is clear is that this rule cannot be avoided, we can look back since stake.com was launched slowly KYC applied.
Currently KYC is only to claim bonus drops maybe in the future KYC is needed to claim weekly/monthly bonuses
Yes, I understand that and indeed in the future, no one knows how we will become gamblers.
But here I will give a little of my thoughts on your response.
If Stake.com currently provides KYC requirements for a drop bonus then it is at their discretion because the drop bonus is obtained for free and only requires KYC requirements and is different from the weekly or monthly bonuses that stake customers can claim when they have have a high enough wager amount that their account reaches the VIP level at a certain rank.
At the VIP level it's also not easy to win because each user must meet the wagering requirements that have been determined and require a large amount of money to bet to increase the wager amount.
So it seems unlikely that a weekly or monthly bonus on Stake.com will be subject to KYC requirements because the bonus is a right and a form of appreciation from Stake.com to loyal customers who have managed to have a top ranking account.