Both are legitimate approaches with interesting tradeoffs, and Rust and Go are both great languages with distinct strengths. There's a sort of cathedral and bizarre dynamic at work. Go's language design decisions feel like a bizarre where people just kinda brought their ideas and they happened; think about the way you format dates in Go, it feels very much like someone just thought that up, was like "yeah that feels right", and shipped it. Their standard library is more of a cathedral; it's expansive, monolithic, and complete.

Rust's language design decisions are more of a cathedral; the language feels cohesive and carefully put together, like a delicate puzzle. They're slow to adopt language design decisions, leaving them in an unstabilized purgatory until a very high degree of confidence is developed that it's the right decision. Rust's approach to dependencies is more of a bizarre; you're expected to go to crates.io and work out what dependencies to adopt for just about everything.