With that logic not only would we have had 747's to begin with, we'd still be flying around in DC-3's.
Remember Puff, the Magic Dragon?
Who needs to fly when you have personal teleportation devices that can take you anywhere in the world?
What? Y’all don’t have one yet?
The DC-3 was extremely popular (and easy to fly).
There were still some in regular use in third world countries in the 1980’s and 1990’s. John Travolta owned one many years ago.
Eisenhower once credited the military version (the C-47 Dakota) as being responsible for winning World War II. Quite an endorsement from Ike.