While I think your point about using them improperly is good (I know I've seen some weird shit back in the day I did C++) I still think there is merit to allowi

While I think your point about using them improperly is good (I know I've seen some weird shit back in the day I did C++) I still think there is merit to allowing operator overloading. Many times you may create units that should work when added together but need unique logic to make it happen and that just can't happen in GO today (you have to make an add() method or something similar). So I think operator overloading can be exploited pretty horribly but can also make code far more intuitive. It's certainly not something that can't be worked around but I always err on the side of letting it happen and the community can direct people to using them most properly.