I don't really like the template engine available in Go (especially the godawful one in the std) so I would have needed to write one or use pongo2 but probably wouldn't have been accepted in Hugo: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359

The assets colocations issue was raised in 2014 and it might come soon but I don't think it's there yet: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/keep-images-content-together/5.... Same thing for Sass compilation: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/support-for-html-css-js-prepro...