Yeah, I firmly believe that those purist voices have been over-represented. From 2019, they seems to change the keyword aggregation methodology in Go Dev Survey

Yeah, I firmly believe that those purist voices have been over-represented. From 2019, they seems to change the keyword aggregation methodology in Go Dev Survey and the portion of generic just skyrocketed (https://go.dev/blog/survey2019-results https://go.dev/blog/survey2019-results) to 79%. And even before that generic had been always one of the top complaints.