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Lavender players CAN host their own servers. It's not mandatory. Official servers still need to exist for content coordination, too. 
While the future is that you can run your own content servers too, this isn't forthcoming. There also needs to be funds for development costs itself. Coffee and lotion ain't free. There is a need for money to be spent to keep lavender going. 
VRC gets this money from investor capital. They run no income, but continue to get money from HTC/facebook since it sells headsets. Hopefully Lavender can grab some of this headset geld but probably unlikely. Better to be supported by the players, than HTC, since then you're making a game to make the players happy rather than investors.