AMP is such an egregious attack on open standards it shouldn't be possible. The fact that it is shows the system is broken. The whole point of having a system

AMP is such an egregious attack on open standards it shouldn't be possible. The fact that it is shows the system is broken. The whole point of having a system is to prevent short term interests from trumping long term health. Tomorrow any monopolist can offer a short term fix for a fraction with the public lapping it up only to run down competitors and capture the market. This is well known monopolist behavior with strong systemic safeguards which curiously are not working. People keep on complaining about heavy web pages but what happened to faith in markets and letting users decide? Surely if a website is too heavy people will automatically seek alternatives. So there is a contradiction here, does the market work or does it encourage a race to the bottom? Perhaps without Google's monopolist intervention a more open less self interested solution could have emerged. Google is becoming a monster with an obsessive insatiable appetite for information and knowledge. A push back is long overdue or we will pay with private self serving entities controlling access to our own information and knowledge.