FWIW Amplosion (paid iOS extension to automatically redirect AMP pages) is quite highly ranked on the app store.
It clearly isn't only techies that dislike it so much that they actually pay to get rid of AMP.
It clearly isn't only techies that dislike it so much that they actually pay to get rid of AMP.
Anyway, the AMP experience was a fresh breath in the world of 10-20 seconds webpage loading times. You see the lightning icon, tap it and the content instantly comes. Swipe right and left to go through the other results and everything is displayed instantly, top notch experience - especially when Googling for stuff from the news websites.
I agree. It's one of the imperfections of the AMP. I like AMP for quickly skimming between the results and then load the original page if I find something lengthy ro read.
It also strips out all the crap the site's UX/UI people use to try and keep you on the site.
I think most non-techies have no idea what AMP is to begin with.
It's just, once again, "my phone is doing some annoying and unexpected shit I didn't ask for".