[tialaramex]

I can see Go's point here though. Unlike C-style languages where i++ is an expression, in Go it's only a statement, it has no value, which eliminates some footgun opportunities.

It's a halfway house to a language like Swift or Rust where none of the assignments have value. So, in a context where you don't want a value, arguably i++ is a better choice by eliminating a footgun. I don't hate it.