[lobster_johnson]

vgo is at least phrased as being a proposal, not necessarily the future of Go [1]:

    This post sketches a proposal for doing exactly
    that, along with a prototype demonstration ...
    I intend this post to be the start of a productive
    discussion about what works and what doesn't.
    Based on that discussion, I will make adjustments
    to both the proposal and the prototype, and then 
    I will submit an official Go proposal, for
    integration into Go 1.11 as an opt-in feature.

Of course, this is Russ Cox, so chances are that his proposal will carry more weight with his fellow core Go team than that of Dep's authors.

Sam Boyer's follow-up is interesting reading [2]. I get the feeling that despite their ongoing discussions, the Dep team was/felt ambushed by this move.

[1] https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro

[2] https://sdboyer.io/blog/vgo-and-dep/

[vorg]

The distrust of anything "not invented here" is prevalent in big corps like Google.