Gandi is not awful for managing domains (although they had issues with DNS management for years) but Gandi is a no-no-everything-constantly-on-fire for everything else, notably VPS and networking stacks
Try njalla, a privacy focused domain provider. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the original creators of The Pirate Bay. You can pay with crypto currencies and they even have a .onion domain of their website, so you can reach them over Tor.
They buy the domain themselves, and let you pay with Dogecoins -- possibly a good deal for the next Pirate Bay, but not what I would use for general domain registration. There is a good chance one day they will go down and take your (their!) domain with them.
From their website:
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We're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these.
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When you buy a domain in our system, we're actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain.
Claiming not to do shady things with user data is the minimum I expect from a domain registrar. Fortunately, Gandi aren't unique in that respect.
Gandi came highly recommended to me, so I was quite disappointed by the reality.