And the point I’m making is that I choose to use an extension on my laptop so that I get AMP pages by default. Because they are so much better than the traditional pages that news sites have developed. They aren’t losing any traffic from me, I’m simply choosing to view content that is presented much more professionally and usefully.

I suspect if news sites and developers had paid attention to user experience in the first place, that nobody would ever have seen a need for AMP. Google created it to a address a real problem, and it seems to be a problem that no developers reacting to this article seem interested in.

That’s telling.

I submit that it’s this lack of interest in the user experience that is the root of the problem.

Practically all of my colleagues gripe and grumble about how bad most news sites are, how difficult and frustrating they are to use — unless we switch to AMP.

So, I find it very significant that not one of the developers in this thread has acknowledged that side of the equation.