Thanks for your feedback! Of course we all have our "bubble", we make our own experiences, and if we share our learnings, they might not always match what other people have experienced. In practice, I feel a statement like "any event could trigger any bit of code in the entire system" a bit exaggerated. When I think of event driven systems, I think of business applications, where a large number of microservices interoperates mainly over Kafka. So the services that are triggered by an event are already limited to those subscribing to a specific Kafka topic. Of course if you follow the chain of subsequent events (i.e. service A emits an event, with leads to service B emitting events, with lead to service C and D emitting events..), you might not be aware for every event what'll happen way downstream. But you can turn this into an architectural strength, as it leads to better decoupling and separation of concerns.

On another note, as you describe GOTO as a double sided sword, now I really wonder what the positive side of GOTO is..