Apart from that a lot of websites started showing an overlay on top of the AMP pages, clicking on AMP pages don't work as expected a lot of times, it has a noticeable delay between actions (scrolling/tapping).
I disliked AMP when I first started seeing it but the way it has evolved has made the experience way worse than it started with... Probably because Google also caved in and tried to cater to customisations requests from big publishers.
The first solution is not AMP. The first solution is to go back to when a web page was a "page", not a program made up of cobbled together bits of JavaScript.
Cookie preference popups, join the newsletter popups, animated or dynamic ads, and everything else stupid websites do that causes the browser's rendering engine to grind away non-stop...
The current user experience is worse than I think it ever was.
But as other posters have comments, AMP is probably intended to be a control and data tracking system first, with user experience being second or lower priority.
See HTTPS adoption.
https://storage.googleapis.com/cdn.thenewstack.io/media/2018...
Great example. You just proved my point that it is possible to have positive change in large communities.
That graph shows that there's an obnoxiously large number of websites that don't support something that there's zero reason not to support.
It costs $0 and takes maybe half an hour to implement, browsers are screaming "not secure" to each visitor, and one in five websites still don't support it. "Make websites faster", on top of being vague, is way more difficult to implement.
If fast site performance ensures you get listed first, every site would get faster overnight.
And no attempt to fix the slowness of the modern web will succeed without blocking ads and tracking scripts.
This is the downside of the dominant browser being made by and ads-and-tracking company.