For most people there will always be a gate keeper for internet communication, because most people aren't informed or capable enough to know how to, say, register their own domain, much less know what to do with it.
Right, and people can't figure out how to do this by reading? Medium alone seems to have at least a dozen articles on how to build your own website, though I haven't bothered to read them and thus can't say whether they just suggesting using Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace (none of which actually count).