This is a very old-school way of thinking, without any mention of privacy or how to share data safely between different users. As soon as you have multiple users, especially when they don't trust each other, things get much more complicated.
Should you really be able to do anything you like with your bank account or DMV record? And do you really want the people you interact with to download all the photos you share?
Single-user systems are much easier to deal with, but they're just sandboxes that don't do every much.
Sure, but if you're doing RPC and it does a security check, this isn't all that different from filling out a form and getting a response. It's not empowerment since you don't get to do anything more with the data than you could otherwise.
That's not much like playing with your own data in a sandbox.
Should you really be able to do anything you like with your bank account or DMV record? And do you really want the people you interact with to download all the photos you share?
Single-user systems are much easier to deal with, but they're just sandboxes that don't do every much.