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I understand ysofunny's comment to have meant basically microservices/contemporary web backend.

Hold on a minute.

You are confusing the network stack (as in OS development) and network applications. Go is the undisputed king of backend, but no reasonable person has ever claimed its a good choice for OS development.

After the guy responsible for it left the team.

This sounds more like for perf reasons that for performance reasons.