You could argue early in the days of self-hosting and HTML 2. However, the cloud was the nail in the coffin. You own nothing in the cloud. You gave up sovereignty when you traded for convenience, that's where the internet fell. We sold it for convenience and commodity and other actors swept in. Cloudflare for example.
Oh how we must need Cloudflare. How about instead of fixing, let's just throw an intermediary /s. SSL's are a racket, TLD's are too. All resource things you don't own and never will. (Unless you self-host) but otherwise you it lease out and charged. If you miss that renewal bill, sorry kid. That's our domain now.
Don't make me laugh at LetsEncrypt, I'm drinking my coffee to get through the morning. However that again is trading internet independence in to a false facade of "we are helping the internet" but as it's free, it's better than nothing.
Unless you have your own transit, Peers, AS, network, DNS which most don't and those that were independent ISPs sold themselves out. We are stuck in this atrocious capitalistic ideology of a dream, one built on lies from the beginning, until we strike that; enjoy this monopoly of corporate greed.