> How I wish we could have a new generation of network engineers who just say "fuck this shit" and build their own internet.
There are plenty of anarchists and disaster aid groups interested in building a more decentralized alternative to the internet. Meshtastic, AnoNet, Reticulum, MeshCore, etc are all evidence of that
Then there's also stuff like Dave Ackley's robust-first computing that's looking towards a completely different paradigm for computing in general that focuses on robustness.