the fact that you call Rob Pike "Erik Pike" really reads like the complaints of someone who doesn't do their homework and asks questions that have already been answered in many places.

Generics is a major tell, too, since the Go team's position on generics was always "generics are interesting but we don't know how to make them work well with Go's existing type system". See for example, this blog post from 2009: https://research.swtch.com/generic which references the FAQ answer to the generics problem here: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics: "Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it."

so I can see why people who have repeatedly answered the same question for years, only to have their answer misrepresented for years, to be annoyed when people who haven't read any prior discussion bring up a point that has been already talked about ad nauseam.