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Frequent use of these patterns is a good smell test that one should reconsider design choices. Are there times when usage is justified? Yes. Should it be the first / default mechanism? No. Learn the rules first, and then it will be more clear when you should break them.

I have no problem with the general rule nor a built-in mechanism for breaking them.

Simple example: if I ever have a row lock I wrap the corresponding block in recover to ensure that I never have a deadlock. But I certainly don’t wrap every function in recover...

These features do not scale so one should take care to use these language features only when necessary. Also the OP is not Gospel of Go, merely an expressed opinion.

There's no problem with using any of those features; they just come with some drawbacks and in many cases they're not the best tool. But in some cases they are, and then by all means go ahead and use them. They exist for a reason.