Seems to me they've rightly figured that exceptions were a mistake and C had the right overall idea about error handling all along. Go essentially took C's error handling, such at is is, and improved it one step further, taking it from ~20% complete to ~80%. In contrast, e.g. Rust is probably at ~95%.

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It does endlessly fascinate me how 20 years after the definitive wisdom against exceptions appeared [1], programmers still keep insisting that seeing all code paths laid out bare on the page is somehow worse than keeping them implicit and hidden.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/13/13/

"I think the reason programmers in C/C++/Java style languages have been attracted to exceptions is simply because the syntax does not have a concise way to call a function that returns multiple values, so it’s hard to write a function that either produces a return value or returns an error."

Effortlessly predicting the direction of future languages like Go/Rust/Zig decades ahead of their time. Excellent taste.