For this reason, we should not be waiting…

This would be nice, but it doesn't appear to be the way humans work. And may not be the way the universe works. Such as, if you make a void, something will fill it.

And the something often doesn't come until after the void.
If everything is in stasis then most things do move.

So, there are people working on this because they hate the way the internetz is being locked down.
I listed some of the ways that people i know about are trying to solve this.

I do not know which will be the next internet, but i do know that we "stumble" upon the universal-internet and that opens a whole bunch of exploration. We will know that this is communication, but we will have to figure out the language and the encoding. That will be an interesting time.