I would add that anyone looking to replace the web should think about what problems the web doesn't solve. I think you could argue that this was what made the

I would add that anyone looking to replace the web should think about what problems the web doesn't solve. I think you could argue that this was what made the web itself successful. Mr. Berners-Lee saw that there was no system which had gained market acceptance that organized information in the way that people actually tend to organize it (which is not hierarchically). As you may have been alluding to, simply coming up with a more elegant, well-architected version of the web has no value to anyone outside of the engineering room.