Let’s hope AMP, like most google products, is shut down within the next 2-3 years
Ideally people would develop fast sites on their own, but apparently they need the help of Google.
Users have no control outside of not using google. If google were to provide a setting for the user to never see AMP, I would have less issue with this. But they don't
Instead, they basically force publishers to use this because if they don't the news carousel will not show their article. It just gives Google more control over the web for minimal at best benefits
And AMP is a pain in the ass. It's sold as being "just HTML" but it isn't, really. You can't even use an <img> tag, it has to be <amp-img>. So you have to generate two versions of every page. Achievable for large companies but if you don't have a lot of resources that's a big overhead. As is so often the case, it helps concentrate all web traffic to a smaller and smaller number of sites/publishers and shutting the rest out. That's not good.
If there are some benefits to it why shouldn't those benefits be standardized? Is Google preventing the standardization of AMP?
This is false. as a user I cannot easily opt out of using AMP