AMP was an attempt to link hijack the whole net, funnelling everyone through a demostarably worse google implementation. Dystopian is to soft a word.
AMP was a cool piece of technology that was actually faster, they (Google) just had to infect it with bad intentions.
IMHO Matle Ubl will in the future be known as 'The Web Thomas Midgley Jr" for the damage done with AMP - and his relentless push to make it a thing.
Now he's left Google, and they are abandoning it - that's another decade of web content that will just die without the chance to be archived.
The problem was that some (news) sites were/are designed by myspace profile artists. Elements jump around the screen 15 seconds after the content loaded.
How many display ads do we want to show on a page? Yes.