I find it a huge advantage, in fact the lack of blobs may be my favorite go feature. I'm sure stodgy old companies that want to preserve "IP" through security through obscurity, dislike this model.

But as a dev? I can drill down to the core (C-b in Goland, jump to definition) of ANY import. Even the entire go toolchain is in go.

ABI/version management of artifacts is a nightmare, every single time.