No sneering involved at all, I assure you! Just an interest in programmer productivity, which I see as genuinely helpful.

Perhaps you see all languages as roughly equivalent and that is the cause of our differing opinions. In any case I've known quite a few engineers who have really drunk the koolaid, invested heavily in Go, become zealots for of the language and suffered for it before moving to options like Rust, Elixir, Kotlin or even Java or C++.

I'm just trying to prevent some of that suffering going forward. Nothing more nefarious than that!