Rather than "boring", this seems to be reaching for something like the concept of a "pit of success", or https://haskellforall.com/2016/04/worst-practices-should-be-... . I don't think the fact that the most common pitfalls in Go are well known should be taken as a sign that it doesn't have more esoteric pitfalls as well; it's just that the common cases (like nil) are the ones that everyone sees all the time.