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The classic problem: cycles. Either you make the programmer manually deal with cycles via weak references, which can be error prone and allow memory bugs to creep in, or you have a secondary GC to collect cycles. The first one increases programmer complexity and the second one increases implementation complexity, which are, respectively, the first and second things Go attempts to avoid.

There's also the issue that ARC vs. GC is a tradeoff between CPU overhead and memory overhead, and that in the scenarios Go was initially designed for (Google's servers) memory is much cheaper.

> which is that the website has very few actual blues.

Here's the results from the 2014 survey:

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Politics (short)

Communist: 9, 0.6%

Conservative: 67, 4.5%

Liberal: 416, 27.7%

Libertarian: 379, 25.2%

Social Democratic: 585, 38.9%

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Politics (longform)

Anarchist: 40, 2.7%

Communist: 9, 0.6%

Conservative: 23, 1.9%

Futarchist: 41, 2.7%

Left-Libertarian: 192, 12.8%

Libertarian: 164, 10.9%

Moderate: 56, 3.7%

Neoreactionary: 29, 1.9%

Social Democrat: 162, 10.8%

Socialist: 89, 5.9%

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(From the big groups, we see 66% leftish identification.)

From the detailed groups, 54% of the surveyed ended up in the top longform groups, ~60% of those seem firmly somewhere on the left.