Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride, it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the same responses: You talk about Windows: that's not what Go is good at! (Also, who cares?) This is very one-sided: you're not talking about the good sides of Go! You don't understand the compromises Go makes. Large companies use Go, so it can't be that bad! Modelling problems "correctly" is too costly,...