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I assume people didn't have mills at home for the same reason most people of today don't have full blown data centers at home. People did have mortars though like today's people have PCs and smartphones.

I think you're wrong to assume that of two things that co-evolved, one thing had to cause the other.

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People didn't have giant millstones at home, but (IIUC) had various forms of handmill at home at various times and places.

Interestingly, per https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-... several Mediterranean cultures equipped their soldiers with handmills, with the Romans also including sickles so they could process grain from the fields they were marching near, allowing an earlier campaign season then were they forced to wait for it to be harvested.

You'd have a quern at home, at least in Scotland, probably most of England too.

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