I get that AMP sites are supposed to load faster. But why do they have to be so ugly?

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Or why do they need to change the appearance from the original version of the page at all? It just looks unaesthetic

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The original is often just as bad.

But you know what would load even faster and look decent across most form factors? Plain semantically correct HTML with minimal CSS and no JavaScript. For some reason that solution doesn't seem to occur to Google's engineers /s

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