Comment by zaphar

It's not a comment on a users intelligence. It is instead a recognition that not all users value the same things. Therefore it is helpful for consistency and the writing of robust maintainable code that Go be opinionated at the language level. You don't have agree to with them but they made their choices informed by their years of writing large complicated codebases and they enforce those decisions at the language level. They have no wish to allow someone else to subvert those decisions since it would be counter to the goal of the language.

You as a user can choose to live with those decisions or use a language that gives you more freedom. All such decisions come with a series of tradeoffs. Just make sure you are making the decision in as informed a way as you can.