Yup. I stopped following Go when that happened. Not intentionally but adding yet more things (invisible ones, no less) that I need to be wary of is not what I consider convenience in a syntax. Other more awkward languages became less inconvenient to use and I just stopped using Go.

I probably would have kept at it a bit longer if the dev team was more accepting of feedback presented in good faith. I'm not really surprised -- it's often hard to tell the difference between fruitless bikeshedding and oh guys FYI you might consider this a problem, I do.

I am biased towards semis though, when I first saw OCaml's ';;' I was pleased.