[benhoyt]

I'm a maintainer of some smaller open source projects -- you have to consider it from the project owner's point of view. To say they "shoot down ideas" is a negative way of saying it, but from their point of view they're carefully selecting and designing features and code that fit the design philosophy of the language. If the Go developers included every idea that users submitted (and there are many! -- I read the mailing lists), the language and standard libraries would be a sprawling and incoherent pile.