Agreed. I've been writing Go since like 2011 and even when I started there was plenty of emphasis on channels as just one of the options along with mutexes and

Agreed. I've been writing Go since like 2011 and even when I started there was plenty of emphasis on channels as just one of the options along with mutexes and a sense that channels were easier to make correct, but mutexes were easier to make efficient. If someone else got the impression that channels were pushed exclusively, I guess they were watching different talks and reading different documentation than I was.