[headcanon]

We're not talking about developer/technical blogs, which are generally very lightweight, and the person making it likely takes pride in things like efficiency. Your typical content publishing platform on the other hand, is a giant mess of wordpress plugins, tracking, ads, and scripts that pull in other scripts that pull in other scripts. Is it efficient from a technical perspective? No, but it gets the job done for them. AMP is a solution that makes it dead simple for these shops to get a reasonable load time for their content on mobile, which translates to less time spent, which at the end of the day is more important to them.

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The problem is that their framework is too big and bloated. Your suggestion is to have them add another layer on top of that, rather than remove the bloat?

[headcanon]

Welcome to the real world my friend. Good engineering takes a backseat to clicks and pageviews in the online publishing industry.