When you look at the state of things, you should realize that things evolved to be this way _for_a_reason_.

What specific reason or reasons might not be clear, but those reasons and forces nevertheless exist.

Calls to return "back to roots" are quite naive, for example, "let's abandon governments and have private police!". No, we have what we have for a reason.

Same with the state of the Internet. "Let's all go back to protocols! Remember gopher? Let's all do that!".

You cannot "unroll" progress. You cannot go back and live like the Amish. Well, you can, in a tiny weird closed community, while the rest of the world continues to march on.