You wouldn’t send crypto from a bank.

Right, that's the point, you don't need a bank to send or receive it, banks aren't involved in that process at all.

I know that my banks. 3 of them refused to buy crypto.

They don't do this because they run crypto, they do it because they don't want you to be able to use crypto.

It’s bring manipulated by the mega wealthy.

True, but that just means if you try to play the market you're likely to get burned. That's separate from whether they're an alternative to the problems posed by banks. In this case the article is about banks having poor transparency and record keeping so they can get away with shit. Crypto has great transparency, not just to the government but to anyone who cares to look at a record of every transaction. Banks don't want that for the obvious reasons.