But nobody is talking about the technical merits of that switch or of Go, we're talking about the popularity of Go. If tomorrow I create a language called "Gori

But nobody is talking about the technical merits of that switch or of Go, we're talking about the popularity of Go. If tomorrow I create a language called "Gorilla" that is a worse language than Go, that Kubernetes switches to Gorilla and that Gorilla gets popular, there's a good chance that the switch will help the popularity of Gorilla. If instead I create a language called "Whale" that is a better language than Go, and the same thing happens, again the switch will have helped the popularity of Whale. The exact same thing will happen with a language exactly the equal of Go. All of that to say, technical merit has nothing to do with it, it was never the subject.