(Like I said, I don't know where I'm going with this line of thought.)

Current notions of democratization of the Web are focused around how to equalize and liberalize access to privatized resources (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or how to make alternatives to those resources (Gnu Social/Mastodon). But that's all about the complications imposed on users due to subscribing to specific tools.

Democratizing the building of the web now is probably impossible. The sites have become The Hard Problem.