This is kind of like saying people don’t want to run their own grocery store. Clearly it’s false. The bad assumption is that owning Bitcoin == Running Bitcoin.

This is kind of like saying people don’t want to run their own grocery store. Clearly it’s false. The bad assumption is that owning Bitcoin == Running Bitcoin. Running Bitcoin (nodes and miners) == Running Bitcoin, and people want to do it for obvious reasons - the beauty of the protocol is how little power those people running it actually have.