As cool as 90's cyberpunk dreams are, to me they always seem to ignore the physical reality that your connection to "the net" always has to go through the chokepoint of an ISP, and that this ultimately is an indissoluble barrier on just how anti-establishment the internet can ultimately be.
You say it can't happen again, but IMHO that's not true.
Not true anymore.
What is the replacement? Mesh wifi? Guerilla fiber deployments? Or just a bunch of VPN tunnel brokers trying to evade blocklists on the corp-approved ISPs you have to keep using in place of POTS?
It doesn't really take over because so far we are pretty much free to do what we want from our ISP connection. Some countries impose dns censorship but appart from the few dictatures that run their great firewall, it is light censorships as they let people query the DNS server they want.