There's a process by which low tech, low cost communal activities become professionalised in a way that squeezes out the people.

Is it possible to get back to the way it was done all those years ago, and just start from there?

Once upon a time a bunch of ordinary people built a vehicle. Then it got taken away from them and rebuilt with shiny panels and plush seats, and a price tag for getting on board that put it out of thge reach of ordinary people. And nobody is allowed to drive it unless they are friends with the people who own it.

So instead of lamenting the loss of the vehicle, isn't it possible to turn round and build it again from scrap, the way it was done in the first place?