[ifyoubuildit]

I have a similar feeling. I think there is a definite lifecycle to consumer technology (on the internet you have things like wikipedia, youtube, social media, google search, but this also applies to things like smart phones, operating systems, tvs even).

These things all seem to follow a curve. They are released, adopted and improved, they become amazing, and then at some point they start to decline for whatever reason (even as they may be improving in some aspects - like smart tvs continue to get a better picture but only if you can stomach the extra ads, surveillance, and otherwise creepy anti features).

I wish I could just have windows 7 with security updates, a dumb tv with an awesome screen, almost no subscriptions or cloud based doodads.

Id love a frozen version of the internet that nobody can come along and ruin for whatever reason. Internet in a box seems like a good idea to me.