There are many, many, many "legitimate" "real-world" situations where you need data structures ouside of the two or three Go gives you by default. Queues? Dequeues? Trees, for the love of $DEITY? Tries? Sets?

Effective use of Golang is really teaching yourself to think that anything beyond the language is a useless distraction or some kind of academic pretension. I won't go so far as to call it S________ S_______, but this is textbook Blub.