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I agree, it seems disingenuous to describe IPFS as the only way to implement a decentralized web. For example in our group we've explored the idea of essentially a decentralized Merkle tree where the document id's are resolved via P2P gossip, like in early versions of Gnutella.

yeah this reminds me of the 90s when netscape wanted to "be" the web, and 2017 where facebook wants to "be" the internet

this whole winner takes all mentality is taking the world in a really scary direction

I agree. IPFS itself has taken a very tacky Silicon-Valley-startup approach to marketing: "IPFS is the Distributed Web". IPFS is distributed and could be used as a web platform. But it's not "the" anything. For me, it's a really big turnoff. Most people involved in the decentralized web movement are very non-commercial. IPFS always seems to have a "shilling for VC funding" taste.