Generics are adding a tool to the toolbox. They can be used well or they can be mis-used. I recently wrote a gui app in Golang using Fyne and I really wish I'd had generics for some of the UI handling - instead I ended up having to write some really ugly and not simple code to handle the case. The end result was worse and less-simple than if I had been able to use generics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28254411

The "solution" to this is copy-pasted boilerplate code with casting for every call.

Hello-world level projects with 20 class deep hierarchies of generic classes, just to make it "generic" in case you need it later.

Some people will abuse generics, no doubt, just like my colleague abused packages. But Go has such a strong culture around idiomatic code that I’m not too worried that generics are the end of the world. In fact, I don’t like keywords like “append” and I’m hopeful generics will replace them.

TBH I was more upset about the Go 1.17 ability to panic during a type conversion from slice to array pointer. That one really grates my gears.