How would you incentivize liquidity providers?
If AMM is the superior technology, why do LPs need to be incentivised?
It sounds as all I need is to fill a form that says: "I am shipping you X tokens of this, Y tokens of that (X>=0, Y>=0) and I think the fair price is Z, please trade my assets accordingly until I tell you to stop and send back.
If there is no farming incentive for providing liquidity then everyone providing liquidity will automatically lose money from "impermanent loss" every time prices move. There would be nothing to gain from providing liquidity, so no one would do it.
AMM is superior to order books because the farming mechanic incentivizes everyone to all throw their liquidity into the same pool, increasing liquidity exponentially compared to an order book and greatly reducing slippage in both directions.
Without yield farming, AMM is pointless.
But at the same time trading fees are part of the yield.
So you could jack up trading fees to like 1%-2% and pay the LPs with that.
You can't just reject reality.
2 + 2 = 4
It's already happening.
It's already happened.
AMM mathematically provides more liquidity to the market on a dollar for dollar ratio.
People are using them.
These are facts.
Literally no one is saying otherwise.
Risk: meet reward.
Providing liquidity is far less risky than trading.