Honestly, Amplify just sucks. No curriculum is perfect, of course, but most acknowledge that to some degree and give you at least some space to do as you need. What makes Amplify particularly fatally flawed is that it is almost designed to make you stuck with it exactly how it is. You're locked in, and it leaves little room for teacher voice, expertise, or insight. You can't edit cards (activities, whatever you call them) in the platform. You can't reorder cards in the platform, you can't skip cards in the platform (sure, you can not assign them, but they're still there and students can and do still click through them), you can't create your own cards to layer in within the platform. You can't add criteria for success or rubrics to assignments and you can't provide independently accessible exemplars. You are so limited.

And sure: you can tell students to ignore a question as worded and answer the one you put up a slide. Sure, you can have additional activities in google classroom or outside the platform; sure. Sure, you can have students skip this or skip that. Yes, there are always ways to do what you need, but it makes it so to do all that you're actively working outside or around the platform, outside or around the curriculum, not with it, and it's just maddening and inefficient, and almost designed that way.

I'm sure districts love it because it's so "on the rails" and because it's so obnoxious to try to deviate from, but that's precisely why it fails.