I guess the claim is that any more expressiveness would necessitate losses in readability or simplicity that the expressiveness doesn't make up for. Personally

I guess the claim is that any more expressiveness would necessitate losses in readability or simplicity that the expressiveness doesn't make up for. Personally, I think you're sense of relative value of those has to be pretty unusual to thinks it's "perfect". Though valuing simplicity above almost everything else is what's written on the tin with Go.