It does, but I think we no longer live in that kind of environment. Distributed is the norm, and trying to shoehorn it into a mental model where everything is a

It does, but I think we no longer live in that kind of environment. Distributed is the norm, and trying to shoehorn it into a mental model where everything is all in the same place adds a kind of accidental complexity to our underlying stack for simplicity at the very top. As an aside, with the future as a (potential) interplanetary species, networks can't beat the speed of light, so we'll have to figure this out then!