[majormajor]

It's definitely a footgun but I think it's also pretty clear in go docs that defer is a function-return-time thing, versus a loop iteration thing. "A defer statement defers the execution of a function until the surrounding function returns." from https://go.dev/tour/flowcontrol/12

I think per scope-level is probably better, but honestly still - as a I mention elsewhere - still something that seems fairly limited compared to writing code inside blocks that clean themselves up in the Ruby world. The more we're messing with scope, the more it seems like it would be possible to go all the way to that? The go-style defer appears likely to be simpler from an implementation POV; if we're gonna make it harder let's go all the way!

I know a lot of people hate the nesting of indentation from that, but it makes so many other things harder to screw up.