You keep mentioning "websurfers," "the majority of people," the comment you linked describes "real people." Indeed, most people on the internet are not going to start their own blogs tomorrow and fill out their RSS readers with dozens of hand-picked blogs.

The content creators you list may have changed how they publish their content to reach a different/larger audience, and that's totally fine. It's a good thing that there are different groups of people who spend time in different corners of the internet. If you want to make a big splash, of course you won't (just) use the tools of the small internet.

There may be some people who want the "small internet" to make some sort of grand comeback. But I think most of the people interested in it are looking to build out a more intimate community of people who want to do the same. And that dream is already being realized for many. With an internet this large, even this niche can be a large group of people.