Again, literally all they had to do was announce specific page speed numbers you need to hit to get featured in a special carousel (just like AMP!). The tech t

Again, literally all they had to do was announce specific page speed numbers you need to hit to get featured in a special carousel (just like AMP!). The tech team could have just as easily have said, "sorry, that would put us over our X ms page speed limit." The fact Google spent 100X the resources of a simple algorithm update by creating AMP, tells us there were other motives behind this.