I think one interesting aspect is to think what would happen if Ken Thompson and Rob Pike and the other original creators and active maintainers left Google? A

I think one interesting aspect is to think what would happen if Ken Thompson and Rob Pike and the other original creators and active maintainers left Google? And say, they still wanted to lead the project? Even though they no longer work? Could they? Or would Google appoint new people, and maybe Go would lose its magic? I guess that's the difference between run by one or a few BDFLs and run by Google?