I agree. I think we've made a terrible mistake and forgot something important: you can't make a product for everyone. As long as people are not uniformly distributed, then it means there is no real "center" point. On a random normal distribution, you can find a point that is minimizes the distance to all others, but that point will not be representative of the distribution itself. If you try to make something for everyone, you make something that is for no one. Instead, we then need to make environments. Places for others to build. This ends up being the only thing that can be for everyone.
Is that not the magic of the computer? You can build and make it your own? You can program it and make new creations? A computer is nothing without the programs and if programs could only be created by those with the means to make computers, we'd only have calculators. Is this not the magic of the internet? Where we can make new connections and build our own spaces and things inside this environment? If the building was limited to those who built the environment, would it be anything like it is today? Is this not the magic of the smartphone? Where we build apps and programs for others to use? If apps could only be developed by Apple and Google, would we even have a flashlight app?
It seems a mistake to close the doors, to board up the windows, and reinforce the walls. It is fear that causes us to do this, thinking we must seek control to maintain our "power." But even a king is benefited when the subjects are free to dream. The fear that giving up a little power will result in losing it all has only led to having less power in all.