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I disagree that you will end up with a `lousy, developer-hostile test suite`. All testify does, to my experience, is change three line if-statement to a one line assert/require that ignores type safety. Aside from that, it is up to the developer to still write good cases, adopt table driven tests when they make sense, and provide enough feedback in test output to debug a broken test.

Testify makes a moderate improvement to writing tests, but I still love it. Multiply the improvements across a hundred tests and the difference is huge.

I wouldn't even call testify a framework. You can just as easily mix tests that don't use testify with tests that do use testify. It's more of a toolkit with helper functions to help you write test, which you can pick and choose as needed. But I agree, I've done the plain vanilla Go testing in the past, and testify has drastically cleaned up my tests.