That is a defeatist mindset that I will not accept.

Custodial anything will lead to regulatory capture. You will end up with the same surveillance and capital controls that exist in the legacy banking system, only these tools of oppression will be even more effective. At least I'm the legacy system we can still transact privately with physical cash. Get rid of that and you will have even greater tyranny then we have today. 

The goal was to empower financial liberty for all.

Too many 'bitcoiners' today have either lost sight of this goal, or never understood it's importance to begin with.