> so per Hyrum's Law it's probably relied upon by some.

Yikes. this kind of defensive posture with respect to Hyrum's law is extreme and absurd. Per Hyrum's Law everything is potentially relied upon by someone, keeping stuff that may be relied upon means you cannot change anything (see this infamous xkcd on this[1])!

Thinking that no change is acceptable at all isn't the right take-away from Hyrum's Law: instead you should be ready to have to roll back changes that break people's workflow even when you didn't expected the change to break anything (and it also means that you need to have a way for your users to communicate their issues to you, which definitely isn't something Google is well-known for …).

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1172/

The Go project is in fact VERY well known for accepting user feedback, via golang-nuts or GitHub issues.