So true. It's funny that the Web 3 folks just coopted that phrase from the Semantic Web. And the Semantic Web was/is an actual useful building block on top of the current web whereas blockchain based Web 3 is a side step using entirely different protocols and paradigms.

Some of the arguments here fill me with good hope that the semantic web is going to be the next revolution.

After all, it very much feels like a revolution with the amount of people saying it'll never work.

Right, we're somewhere up around Angular or React version numbers of web.X at this point

Same here. After web 2.0, next one was supposed to be about the semantic web.