[nerdponx]

Well that's just silly. Why take a job using hammers and nails when you really like screws and screwdrivers, but hate hammers and nails?

I think the argument instead might have been, "Go is not designed for it, and kludging in a language paradigm that the language wasn't designed for is going to make for worse code."

The fact that these engineers didn't understand this, suggest to me that perhaps they were not very good engineers as such, even if they might have been skilled software programmers.