You're arguing that it's good to (intentionally) break with common code idioms for certain classes of libraries??

Also, have you actually seen the auto-generated APIs he's referring to?

Here are the Godocs for the BigQuery API: https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/api/bigquery/v2

Here's some example code demonstrating the API's bad habits -- such as deeply nested struct pointers, and Do() methods everywhere: https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client/blob/master/e...