They didn't "fold". The plan was to add generics for many years, they just didn't want to "add generics" to have a checkbox done. They wanted to do it in a way

They didn't "fold". The plan was to add generics for many years, they just didn't want to "add generics" to have a checkbox done. They wanted to do it in a way that's useful and practical for the use-cases Go is best suited for. (Still haven't needed generics in any of my Go projects)