This is one of the most compelling arguments in favor of AMP that I’ve heard.

I’m an RSS fan. One nice feature of that model is that the authors/publishers have a metric to (roughly) track the number of subscribers. Does AMP provide similar faculties? For example, could a publisher leverage the Beacon API (navigator, worker)?

It seems like the biggest downside to “AMP as RSS++” is the infrastructure required to make it work. Individual clients can occasionally request an RSS feed and monitor the response for changes. With an AMP model it seems like you’d need a web crawler to build up a list of published articles/posts/etc. Perhaps AMP and RSS could be used together for the best of both worlds?