[armchairhacker]

Even Go is encountering the same fate, albeit slower. It’s nearly impossible to remove a feature once it has seen adoption, especially without an alternative; whereas there are always patterns that are greatly simplified by some new feature, and when a language becomes large, these patterns become common enough that the absence of said feature becomes annoying.

[alphazard]

Yes agree, we are definitely past peak Go.

Suspiciously, after Rob Pike retired from the project, the amount of language and standard library changes skyrocketed. Many people now trying to get their thing into the language so they can add it to their list of accomplishments.

Clear evidence that you need someone saying "no" often.