All the arguments against AMP seem to ignore all the good parts.
Speed was only one part of it
Benefits:
An abstracted analytics tag. Let’s face it. Most news sites suffered from hundreds of Javascript tags. We needed a way to have one protocol to broadcast that info out to all the providers we want to have that data.

In a world that’s quickly becoming distributed, we need a safe and uniform way too cache on the edge. AMP is the only open solution I know of that enables this.

These are huge and all within an open project that Google has handed off now that we have uptake.

Thank you Google.

This doesn’t mean I don’t see the negative points others make. But they never include the positive parts.