Back to People?

When it comes to booking travel, I'm just about ready to give up on the internet. First we have airline sites, then travel sites on top of airline sites, then travel site aggregators on top of them. Even with all of this wonderful disintermediation and reintermediation, we still can't get the best goddamn price! I mean you get the same thing everywhere you go. Whats the point? If you could go through typical cabin and ask everyone what they paid, you would get everything from $200 to $2000, and no rhyme or reason as to why people paid what. You could have rich businessmen paying $200 and regular folks paying $2000 for seats beside each other. I know the airlines like it as is, but there has to be a better way. Is there some kinda secret backroom deal the rest of us can't get access to? Me, I'm ready to go back to an actual HUMAN travel agent.