The phrase "amounted to simply" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is equivalent to or can be reduced to a simpler form or idea.
Example: "The entire project amounted to simply a waste of resources."
Alternatives: "came down to merely" or "boiled down to just".
A game with simple AI is not fun to play; it amounts to simply clicking buttons to beat a stupid computer.
In poorer countries … the patent system may amount to simply the granting of private rights of exclusion to foreign patent-holders".
You could give it a fancy name like biographical deconstruction, but what it amounts to, simply, is this: a reappraisal of how successive generations of critics, biographers and fans mythologize the achievements and life stories of iconic artists.
Making a submission is only the first step, because it amounts to simply playing by their process, and if that's all we do, we're doomed to repeat this charade until the government no longer feels it needs to bother asking for our opinion.
These sorts of titles are often little more than ceremonial, of course, and Gadot's involvement with the company could ultimately amount to simply appearing in ads and posting her Huawei-related experiences on social media.
But Ross' pronouncements are also liable to vindicate the fears of liberal trade skeptics already worried that the Trump administration's version of revising NAFTA will amount to simply expanding NAFTA's reach to new sectors of the economy.
In contrast to the non-trivial interpretation that follows, a trivial reading would be a definition of evidence-based ethics that amounts to simply taking empirical information into account in ethical decision-making without specifying this any further (see above).
The synthesising of qualitative findings does not amount to simply summing up or reducing the findings to one common conclusion, but rather is about enlarging the interpretive possibilities of findings [ 37].
