I think there are two parts to it. First, hating Go has been very popular with a certain segment who feel it’s not complicated enough to be useful, so maybe pe

I think there are two parts to it. First, hating Go has been very popular with a certain segment who feel it’s not complicated enough to be useful, so maybe people are conditioned to be defensive. Second, Go had a huge hype wave, so a lot of clumsy, hapless users got into it, thinking it would make them into good programmers. These people tend to write bad articles and give Go a bad name as a “noob language” that’s hard to do useful things in. That makes clever, elite Go users want to signal how they’re not like the hapless bozo Go users who can’t get anything right. This phenomenon exists more broadly in computing and in general, but for some reason Go is a particularly concentrated microcosm of it.