This is an outlier. The Go team and community never endorsed that. In fact, their position has always been the opposite. To give just one example, see [1].
replyI think it’s pretty clear this post was a response to the clear dogma within the community.
reply> But we need help from everyone. Remember that none of the decisions in Go are infallible; they’re just our best attempts at the time we made them, not wisdom received on stone tablets.