It even has the advantage of loading inside the Google App, where no adblocking exists, so it might even be good for publishers.
Yes, there's no discovery if you don't design for that, user will just bounce.
So, the bottleneck is really the connection setup time? Seems to me, that http2 largely solves that problem, while html already supports prefetch.
Don't kid yourself, the goal here is a better web locked into the google ecosystem.
It might be locking you in the Google ecosystem, but the project is open source, and if there wasn't a monopoly in search/ads it wouldn't be an issue…
It even has the advantage of loading inside the Google App, where no adblocking exists, so it might even be good for publishers.
Yes, there's no discovery if you don't design for that, user will just bounce.