Or they make F-Droid more known. Publishing apks yourself means you have to implement an update feature. F-Droid takes care of that
On the store that you host you can also choose to enforce whichever rules you like.
Plus, they were talking about Gab there. If you think you're going to write the next Gab or... Pander or Flander or whatever that website was that allowed people to plan storming the US capital, then you can still have your own store.