This is 100% correct. All your points are right. But the Go team ignored it for _years_ until dep got a lot of traction and we had this big community meeting a

This is 100% correct. All your points are right. But the Go team ignored it for _years_ until dep got a lot of traction and we had this big community meeting about it and live on the call Russ said he was going to work on minimal version selection and build a tool. Sam Boyer had given a big talk about package management at GopherCon and on that call his only response when people asked what was going on was "no comment right now" or something like that. It was almost like it was his first time hearing of it. It just seemed to be handled very poorly. All parties involved are active on HN AFAIK so they can correct me. I am not trying to dig all the past back up just for funsies... maybe something will happen here and the Go core team will realize they need to work with Drew and sort it out. But history points to them doing what they want to do irrespective of the community.