Generics can and will be abused for terrible stuff, that's a reality. There are however a bunch of spots where the difference in not having them is a lot of add

Generics can and will be abused for terrible stuff, that's a reality. There are however a bunch of spots where the difference in not having them is a lot of additional manual code, or unoptimized code using reflection. Every language feature can be abused, that's why Go tries to have a small amount