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> If the Go team at google no longer has any ideas for what to work on (as must be the case if they're wasting their time on dumb crap like forced google spyware in a compiler) then they should just stop.

They did stop. "Go 1" is complete.

Since 2017, the project renewed itself by moving to what is dubbed "Go 2"[1], being built around community feedback. Decisions are made based on data collected from the community. Adding telemetry to increase the amount of data available is in line with the new project scope. Go 1.13 was the first "Go 2" release[2].

Indeed, "Go 1" is still there if you want to use the tool that was built for what was needed at Google and nothing more. You don't have to move into the "Go 2" ecosystem. But if others want to put their time into that, why not? That's their prerogative.

[1] https://go.dev/blog/toward-go2

[2] https://go.dev/blog/go2-next-steps