My tweet about this, for what it's worth:

On the same day Googlers protest retaliation by their own management, a Googler posts about how AMP, the astroturfed, Google-developed and mandated format is the cuddly "open" choice for those who want the "web" (i.e. Google) to win.

Give the web to Google? What could go wrong?

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And for context, here's what the AMP dev rel says in TFA:

"The second reason is that many compare AMP to RSS, and the media positioned it as competitor to certain other big companies’ walled garden media formats. That narrative certainly didn’t help, and for what it’s worth, we, the AMP team, have never told the story that way..."

And here's the origin story from one of the AMP Project's cofounders and former technical lead, Malte Ubl [0]:

"We were worried about the web not existing anymore due to native apps and walled gardens killing it off. We wanted to make the web competitive. We saw a sense of urgency and thus we decided to build on the extensible web to build AMP instead of waiting for standard and browsers and websites to catch up. I stand behind this process. I'm a practical guy."

Honestly...

[0] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597#issuecomm...