Comment by CactusRocket

> and without sacrifices

There are always trade-offs/sacrifices.

The Go team isn't making new versions just for fun. Each version since 1.21 has had improvements. Especially the fix/change to for loop variables in 1.22 is very nice to have, and helps preventing to write bugs.

If there's a reasonable expectation that users will use outdated platforms, it makes sense to support them. If there is no such expectation at all, why would one forego the improvements to the language and tooling.

There's always a price to pay.