meta-tsc

JavaScript was controlled by Mozilla. Standardization into ECMAScript only came later after pressure from Microsoft and a mostly compatible reimplementation called JScript. Dart is also an ECMA standard, though only Google contributes because nobody else cares about it. AMP was far less controlled by Google in practice when it was relevant. https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc/commit/4f18f83794ed25... JavaScript is an awful language, with many warts that are impossible to fix while maintaining backwards compatibility, but as one of your sibling commenters mentioned, the original Dart had problems too.

4/9 of the technical steering committee are Google employees, and 3 others are from big tech platforms (Pinterest, Microsoft, Twitter) https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc/blob/master/README.md

Technically correct, but not useful. Three of the seven members of the committee are employed by Google, and the other four members are each from different companies: https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc#members. Plus, it's not clear wether each member has the same amount of "power".

AMP is also bad, because the technical steering committee is 3/7ths Google employees[1], with the rest made up of similar platforms that use others' content, like Twitter and Pinterest. So content-producing organisations are increasingly strong-armed into building websites the way the platforms want. Also, having large tracts of the web built using the same small set of severely limited components means we get dull, samey websites susceptible to the same hacks or bugs where things like interactive features are much more difficult or impossible. I wrote about this and more here: https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed [1] https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc/blob/master/README.md

How about this then? There are members from Microsoft, Twitter, and Pinterest on the project's technical steering committee: https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc

Looking at their technical steering committee, 3 out of 7 members are from Google, with only one from a company of what I would consider equivalent pull (Microsoft). https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc I would hardly consider Yahoo to be a leader in anything at this point, not sure about mail.ru. From an outsider's perspective AMP looks Google controlled. It looks like from your comment history you are part of Google's AMP team. It would be nice to disclose that.