So I had to step back and think about this a bit. As a technical person and bit of a self hosting maxamlist I find it extremely frustrating when people just default to a custodian because its easy. I feel like defaulting to custodians makes for lazy bitcoiners who will never want to learn the tech side because it "just works why run a node or learn when someone will do it for me". and that concerns me.

That being said, ill coincide that not everyone will be running nodes and much as I personally don't like them, letting someone get comfortable with how the network functions via a custodian is really the only option we have right now. Even when I let my friends use my node i'm still their "custodian". As long as the trade-offs are explained and understood. This is probably a function of me not paying attention to new users much but I don't really see trade-offs being explained well and I always find it ironic when people say they are ready to fight the state with a WOS addy in their bio.

TL;DR I guess need to stop being so salty.