In a similar vein, a fairly mid-level dev was recently trying to convince me that "Rob Pike is a clueless idiot who knows nothing about language design".
It really wasn’t more nuanced than that - I’m pretty much quoting verbatim. The argument stemmed from the lack of generics in Go, which apparently was a sign of incompetence.
My general point is that there a lot of people who see the world in binary - genius or idiot, perfect or incompetent.
And fwiw, Rob Pike definitely did make mistakes. Golang is a great language, but it's not perfect.