No it wasn't. The main trick of AMP was getting things like news sites to cut out dozens of JS libraries. The main trick was to get page load speed onto PM rada

No it wasn't. The main trick of AMP was getting things like news sites to cut out dozens of JS libraries. The main trick was to get page load speed onto PM radars as a priority, so they got that little lightning bolt icon. You can make a regular page as fast as an amp one, absolutely. But the trick of AMP was getting major sites to actually do it. Preferching/prerendering existed long, long before AMP did. That wasn't a new AMP technology, although it does communicate that there's going to be less to preferch than other links.