Ask HN: When do we give up on net neutrality and build a decentralized internet?

Seems like the more effective longer term solution to freeing the Internet from political influence and telecom monopoly would be to embrace the trend of the times and build a decentralized internet, bypassing the telecoms altogether. There are already many localized mesh networks / municipal broadband projects / decentralized communication platform PoCs. Isn't this the obvious path forward to usher in an era of digital libertarianism? Are the communities' efforts not better spent on this front rather than continuing the perpetually inane political battle? Is this a naive consideration to think we could take back the internet, forever, by innovating around ISPs? Why or why not?