[joshuamorton]

Are you one of the hundreds of millions of people who browses the internet primarily on a 3g or slower mobile connection in Asia?

[emayljames]

This would largely be a good case if not for the fact that it is pushed on everyone, everywhere; without a choice.

[judge2020]

Western sites implementing amp (in terms of the general "web" amp) will likely influence local eastern websites to also implement it, along with the notion that "amp gets you to the front page of google results". As an eastern website, the cost to implement it is probably extremely low with plugins and companies [Cloudflare] that do it for you, so it makes sense to click a button and reap the rewards of letting Google's plans play out.

[jchw]

You should be able to disable the option in your e-mail client and get plain HTML e-mail instead. In Gmail, the option is 'Dynamic email.'