Dear christ yes.

“Go is designed as a systems programming language” has been retconned so that “systems” is redefined to mean programs talking over a network?

“Real programs won’t use repetitive error handling, but build on top of it.” I don’t think this one needs further explanation.

“Go doesn’t need xyz.” This is just the slow and painful process of the golang community realizing one at a time why other languages have the features they do.

“Explicit is good.” Explicit and verbose are not the same thing. You can have explicit and terse.

“Golang is simple.” Golang is primitive, not simple. There are tons of footguns and gotchas, not all of which are chronicled in the linked essay, which would have been so easy to avoid. And everyone just collectively internalizes these issues as if “just avoid writing those bugs” is a sane mindset any different than the languages that came before.

“Go doesn’t need a package managers.” Oops, it did. Now we’re like three attempts deep.

Over and over and over I feel like we’ve been gaslit and told we’re crazy, only to later on have the community act like (for example) golang always intended to add generics and of course they’re a good idea.