[taeric]

I took that to mean that most of the major "sanctioned" programs in go, do all of the heavy lifting "in repo."

Which is funny, because it is easy/natural to view dependencies as technical debt. You are literally building against someone else's technical assets. In that sense, most dependencies you have are easily argued to be technical debt. If you have the capital of google, why do that? (For the rest of us, the answer is easy, we don't have that kind of capital and have to.)