> As a newcomer to Go, a lot of their design decisions made a lot of sense when I realized that a lot of the design is based around this idea of "make it impossible to do something that could be dumb in some contexts".
You are indeed a newcomer :) God bless you to shoot feet only in dev environments.
It sounds like you may have some friction-studded history with Go. Any chance you can share your experience and perspective with using the language in your workloads?