The original point was that go is not a Pareto-optimal choice along any set of language criteria.

"I didn't feel like choosing $LANG's competitors, so I went with $LANG" might be how languages are chosen for projects in the real world, but it's not exactly a convincing rebuttal to the argument being made.

Post hoc rationalization

The choice we made for other reasons is the best one for these constructed reasons that didn't exist until later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias

Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14469