Absolutely not. AMP is still around and already integrated deeply into thousands of high-traffic sites.
Google is probably just trying to reduce the likelihood of being broken up. AMP is widely adopted, so the damage of their preferential treatment has already been done.
How do we help it die then, it's the most unwelcome, undesirable crap I've seen in years. Google used all its power to force it down everyone's throats, but it sucks so badly and nobody wants it.
Not publishers, who recognize it for what it is (a very, very thinly veiled attempt at stealing users, traffic and analytics, and Google building its own walled garden).
Not users, for whom navigation is broken, links and scrolling behave weirdly or break completely, and the address bar can't be trusted any more.
A lot of news aggregators and RSS feeds will default to the AMP URL. People post and send AMP URLs all the time. You can see it more and more on reddit lately.
Really unpopular opinion: Tech break ups are a crack pipe dream.
Parallel divisions will just result in the most recognizable names winning out. There is a simple and wrong idea that they can just break off Youtube, Android, and the search engine. Except
that has as much logical coherence as saying Walmart should not be allowed to own their own pharmacies because they have too much dominance in groceries. None at all.
They only have angry old confused vested interests trying to protect their fiefdoms and no plan. It is a replay of the "Repeal and Replace!" bullcrap where after going on propagandizing for years prove they never had a goddamn plan and never tried. Mark my words - these techlash morons will be the dog who caught the car if they actually got what they think they wanted. Yet again like with the link tax where they complain about free advertising and then are outraged when nobody decides to link to them.
At this point I just wish all of those morons going on about antitrust would shut the fuck up because they know nothing but useless demagoguery and making things worse.
Google is probably just trying to reduce the likelihood of being broken up. AMP is widely adopted, so the damage of their preferential treatment has already been done.