Very interesting perspective. It might be off-topic, but this kind of reminded me of the following diagram in _The Society of Mind_:

Reminds me of Darklang's "404s": https://blog.darklang.com/evolving-darks-tracing-system/

Ward Cunningham's "fundamental discovery" was more like a bug fix, or workaround, really. The web wasn't supposed to be read-only. But shipping is better than perfect (worse is better), so we got that. And we saw that it was good (enough). And commercializable. That's why the old papers of the 1960-80s have so much interesting material for "new" ideas that are desperately needed today. One might have to update the technology they were envisioned in back then, although I'm not even sure about that…