I can't upvote this enough. We decided to go with a given set of rules for linting at the project start and problems due to limitations by the linter have been

I can't upvote this enough. We decided to go with a given set of rules for linting at the project start and problems due to limitations by the linter have been extremely rare, in which case we've updated the rules because we can motivate a change. Of course, a tool like 'go fmt' is far superior to common linters, as most third party packages look the same as your own code.