Indian users are the worst example for this, given the regular 2G connections. Hundreds of KB of JS is not helping this, especially not on low-end mobile devices.
For the downvoters: https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
Very low-end devices still have an outrageous amount of memory and storage compared to the scopes we're talking about. In the actual anecdotes of people in India expressing their good user experience with AMP, actual results seem to differ.
But as a North American with a GS8 and a very fast LTE connection, I still love getting AMP results. Just confining to best practices is alone worth it.
Reducing the overall page size of a given page doesn't help
Optimizing rendering for content first and images loaded as required doesn't help
Serving pages from a super fast global CDN doesn't help
And prefetching content behind the scenes also doesn't help
I think you should take these to Google because it seems like they've totally goofed this AMP thing!
And yes, amp is a horrible idea. Block ad networks instead.
No, those are pushed out of memory.
"And yes, amp is a horrible idea. Block ad networks instead."
Well, just don't access any ad-funded content. You can't have the cake and eat it too.