And a lot of people using Go have experienced other language features as well and either decided against them or that the whole tradeoff was not worth it.

I will keep very fast compilation times and decade long backward compatibility over a lot of your features. Because those are features too.

I mean I miss some language features for sure, but the problem with adding language features is that it adds long-term inconsistency. Take a Go codebase from 10 years ago and it should look mostly the same as it would if it was rewritten in modern Go. Do the same with Java and across generations you'd go from straight for loops, to generic iterators and their for-each syntactic sugar, to for-comprehensions, streams and their functional programming style, to whatever Java is up to in 2024, I stopped paying attention years ago.