[rsc]

If "not even more than a handful of programmers" understand something, then it's objectively wrong to refer to all programmers - approximately all programmers - as "dilletantes".

Also, maybe you are different, but I can only keep so much in my head at a time. If I can keep something simple or abstract it away so I can focus on other details, that doesn't make me a dilletante. It makes me more effective at what I'm actually trying to do.

[voidnullnil]

Not sure why people keep deducing this point I have not made. I said Go markets to dilletante programmers, which is a reason to make it simpler, not more complex. Any language with "the memory model" is complex. I do not fully grasp the memory model, either, as it requires full time investment.