> It's at the stage that you meet people who love to hate it without even knowing why that hate it
I don't love to hate it. I just hate it, and I can tell you why -- it's a one-two punch of AMP pages being generally inferior to the real pages, and Google interposing itself between me and the website.
I think you've nailed it - people hate having choices removed from them.
Clearly only a company that has attained a dominant position can even attempt such blatant abuse.
Any company not in a dominant position would go extinct by the mere thought of it.
True, I guess for many it was for Google around the time they removed βdon't be evil.β from their code of conduct. But obviously brewing before that point.
But then, does the business or more so - shareholders drive these types of directions. As it is a trend we see play out over and over again.
I recognize what you're saying is partly true, but I still have an almost irrational burning hatred for AMP.
In younger days I'd of questioned you to the nth degree to rationalise it all. But with age, I've learned that it's cool to just not like something - after all, we happily accept such personal choices when it comes to food. So why not with some arbitrary software more suited as an outlet for any negativity. Indeed, the World would be a far better place if they just focused their hate onto some bit of software.
So with that said, I totally respect your irrational burning hatred for AMP.
It's at the stage that you meet people who love to hate it without even knowing why that hate it, that it is almost fashionable to hate it. Then those that do have a reason to hate it, always have their own reason. With no consensus reason for hating it. Though I'm noticing an increase of "Google" being the reason they give.
But then people love to hate, back when IBM was top dog - people loved to hate them, then Microsoft, and today, well today Google seems to get more hate than Microsoft these days. That's not saying Google did anything wrong, or Microsoft did anything right. If anything, people love to hate whoever is sitting at the top and today in the public's eye - that's Google. Not saying they are right, or wrong.
But clearly - the people's level of hate does seem to correlate with any large company attaining a overly dominant position. Just kinda fascinating to see the same patterns play out over time.