As someone working to see where generics would benefit my actually-existing go projects and not starting with the assumption that something like lodash would be

As someone working to see where generics would benefit my actually-existing go projects and not starting with the assumption that something like lodash would be good, this has not been a problem at all. "No way to require pointer methods" has been much more frustrating to work around. Even the part that works ("Pointer method example") sucks right now because type-type inference was disabled shortly before the 1.18 release pending some bugs. Hopefully once the basic ergonomics are back this can be reconsidered.