I for one absolutely agree with you that the web has gotten too bloated, especially news websites, and I salute your initiative for "debloating" your blog. This is a path that more of us should follow.
I think Google's AMP project is a step in the right direction, but it seems to me that it's not adopted enough.
Because the pages load fast and are not bloated, which is the point of this article.
Unfortunately Google has bound it to other questionable practices like hosting on their domain, but it’s still a step on the right direction. We need something like that plus a way to cache it on the edge servers in a portable fashion so that any CDN like Cloudflare could pick them up.
I think Google's AMP project is a step in the right direction, but it seems to me that it's not adopted enough.