Larry Fink's ETF Democratized Gold

Larry Fink said the cost of buying physical gold is absurd. He was trying to say that ETFs democratized gold and made it so the average guy could buy gold because it was just prohibitively expensive to buy physical gold, which is complete nonsense. Gold has already been democratized. It didn't need theETF. But now he's trying to say the same BS for Bitcoin. The whole argument is absurd because it contradicts itself. There is no custody fee to store your own Bitcoin. So why you need to pay Blackstone money to store something that you could just as easily store yourself from free?