If, in an alternate universe, the people who have designed the amazing hardware we have today suddenly switched to work on designing web backends of medium-size

If, in an alternate universe, the people who have designed the amazing hardware we have today suddenly switched to work on designing web backends of medium-sized tech companies, would they do a better job than the random mess of databases, services, microservices, HTTP APIs, GraphQL APIs, client-side logic, server-side logic, etc that we have today?