I'd also like to see a tool that's useful for research, a readers' ans writers' Web, not merely a consumers' funnel.
I've been lookingat the history of the Web and information in general (guilty pleasure: http://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php). Bush, Nelson, TBL. Early browser history, especially Viola, an entire system: http://www.viola.org . Plan 9's 9p and /net: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/net .
I'm thinkinking or possibly presenting the Web as a filesystem, or other forms not typical of contemporary browsers:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if...
And I've a long list of concerns, largely referenced in the last link above.
Taking a look at your doc.