If the internet as it is right now was what was put forth as the initial internet experiment, one would wonder what kind of shit for brains thought this up. I honestly cannot comprehend how people can talk about software without "fuck off" being used as a greeting. Firefox and Chrome are not even usable. The people who claim they are, are either nerds tunnel visioned and hyped on some super specific thing like their latest sandbox thing or CSS feature, or someone who spent a lot of money on their computer and are desperate to prove they have a premium experience. My parents don't think browsers are usable. Nobody I know IRL does, aside from my most consumerish friends who see buying digital goods as a the new drinking beer. They feel like they are gettign some premium state of the art protection when they idiotically crouch over their phone to enter the 500th SMS based 2FA (read: snakeoil garbage used as a bandaid to fix mind numbingly insecure software on the client as well as the server) token of the day. All it takes to remove the current web is to make something that has a UI at least as good as a 30 year old toaster. Insane bugs aside, all modern software GUIs are slow and unresponsive as hell. A layman trying an actual good alternative will understand its better without needing to know why. Modern web UX design is pure garbage, but it's not much worse than initial web 2.0 design. Everything is a clusterfuck of, "oh can I do this?" 403, "huh I guess not", and "how do I do this? oh there is no button for that? it would be really simple why did they not add this? oh, because it's not relevant to the company's revenue model?".

tl;dr we need the Firefox of Firefox

The web should be static documents. <video> is still something that can go in a static document. There is no need to execute someone's poorly written application hacked together in a <script> tag to view documents in some unreadble form where the text constantly flickers on and off (to gracefully upgrade or whatever it's doing) as they try to impress you with their "type" knowledge. By definition, the majority of websites must be poorly written since there are not as many good programmers as content creators, and the default is for websites to be loaded via a JS in a JS in a JS. Note also how browsers like Firefox and Chrome (and moslty the old web specs) try as hard as possible to make default CSS look horrible. 99% of my usage of the web is for viewing articles, and unfortunately banking which for some reason chooses to implement their online service in the most insecure possible way.

tl;dr the web should be static documents

Now the next problem is that all content has to be hosted on a server that is paid for by someone, and they even pay for a stupid string in the URL bar. Well I guess I should say the web is for commercial content and not for humans (btw, it's a common misconception to claim domain names are human friendly). If the web was on something like IPFS or Freenet, then anyone could make their own website. This brings the web back to what it is about: sharing information (which is an entirely different concept than trying to compose content that will bring the most revenue). However, there is a big problem with this: the American police state doesn't like people sharing files. They prop up false dilemmas like that some rich company's "music" can be illegally shared. If such p2p web materializes, the american police state will be finding new ways to arrest random people and make everything as insufferable as possible. I have tried to host websites recently and basically the only place you can do this is on github.io (I do not want to pay money for hosting a website, because domain names are literal garbage, electronic payments are literally garbage, and having my IRL identity tied to stuff I post online is literally garbage. i do not understand the new trend of using your real identity online other than to promote yourself aka make bad bait content), and then it's not certain if some idiot who has no right to moderate what I say decides to remove my articles discussing old patched security vulnerabilities. Plus github.io makes zero profit so they might just remove my stuff at some point (whereas I could just keep it up forever without changing URL on IPFS or Freenet, and it would stay up forever as long as people or even just I care about it, but nobody uses either).

tl;dr the web should be content addressable and 'murica should stop pretending uploading bits of data is a problem, so people can actually post their websites

Corporations cannot comprehend this because they reason in terms of graphs of consumer happiness and competing with the 3 products that are 0.001% different than theirs. Corporations cannot innovate because the employee spends all his life chasing simple goals laid out by his boss who puts in the minmal effort to define what the goals should be while making it look like he is a better boss than his competitors. Corporations do not require their developers to understand any engineering concepts, they just need to be able to fill tick boxes of features.

tl;dr literally anyone competent can beat big tech