> I have spent countless hours doing real optimizations
> As much grief as CWV has caused me, it is the correct solution to the problem of slow websites
Maybe core web vitals will succeed but I'm skeptical. A big part of AMP's success was ease of implementation. Sites with skilled, motivated, and empowered developers are going to be fine regardless of what technology Google tries to push. It's the other sites (ie, most sites) that I worry about.
AMP with a few tweaks as "here's a Google recommended ready-to-roll framework for doing fast mobile sites" is mostly fine, and as easy to implement technically. But probably hard to get companies to use if not "strongly motivated".
> As much grief as CWV has caused me, it is the correct solution to the problem of slow websites
Maybe core web vitals will succeed but I'm skeptical. A big part of AMP's success was ease of implementation. Sites with skilled, motivated, and empowered developers are going to be fine regardless of what technology Google tries to push. It's the other sites (ie, most sites) that I worry about.