Yes, I addressed this point in the article -- you are advocating "the pedantic solution". The point of the article is that we can "have our cake and eat it too

Yes, I addressed this point in the article -- you are advocating "the pedantic solution". The point of the article is that we can "have our cake and eat it too". (FWIW back in 2009, I designed the original template language that Go html/template was based on, JSON Template, and later Mike Samuel added auto-escaping.)