I've only followed the modules controversy tangentially, but I did go to a presentation by Sam Boyer, where he started getting emotional and muttering about org

I've only followed the modules controversy tangentially, but I did go to a presentation by Sam Boyer, where he started getting emotional and muttering about organizing some sort of resistance movement. Russ Cox made it a point for Go's regex library to have bounded worst-case performance at the cost of worse average time, and Go's fast compilation times are a source of pride for the core team. That they would frown on a dependency management system like dep that is based on a NP-complete algorithm doesn't seem to have struck Sam as a total deal-breaker. In this respect I am fully behind Cox. As the OP says, the Go team has taste, and I want them to keep the language simple, sane and manageable, not a monstrosity like C++, Java and now sadly Python as well.