Sounds similar to when Google said: As a news website you don't NEED to use AMP. You'll just never appear in Google's news carousel, and won't be at the top o

Sounds similar to when Google said: As a news website you don't NEED to use AMP. You'll just never appear in Google's news carousel, and won't be at the top of the news search results anymore. Sorry :( Way too risky for devs to ignore the deadline and possibly get de-ranked from store search results.