We've hit the limits of our current IT stack. And it's severely limiting how we can interact with each other. To quote punk6529: You get the society your IT stack enables.
Not saying progress has halted. So many communities continue to contribute so much! But we often overstate our position on the roadmap. There has not been a Web 1, Web 2, or Web 3. Instead, there has been a Web 0.1, Web 0.2, and Web 0.3. We're still incrementing on Web 0.x