I once did a short gig with a start-up that used Kotlin and the CTO was very enthusiastic about Kotlin. He showed all the things you could do in the languages like adding behavior to an integer that would be applied throughout the program. He was excited and I was a little horrified haha. But huge companies have been built using Kotlin so who am I to judge?
I'm in the same boat as you, I want to solve problems and build products.
That's what everyone wants to do. They just think Go is not the best tool for doing it.
Again, you seem to think everyone else is some kind of academic egghead who enjoys other languages because they let them solve intellectual puzzles. That's not true, they prefer other languages because those other languages are better than Go for practical reasons.
You like Rust and hate Go, that is very clear. But maybe before you call me arrogant and put words in my mouth, read back my comments. I haven't trashed other languages or told people that what they like is shit. Simply that I like Go, and that I don't agree with your arguments.
Btw, my opinion isn't just "liking Rust" -- Rust has plenty of problems. My opinion is that Go is uniquely bad among modern programming languages. Most of the major flaws in Go are fixed in every other modern mainstream language, of which Rust is merely one example.
When you have lots of options you always have lots of opinions, just human nature. When working with low-level problems I get how having lots of options is good since you need to be precise. But, most people work on web-related problems. These have most likely been solved in one way or another before. I don't want to discuss in PRs if you should use x/y/z language feature, I don't think that's relevant for a lot of technical solutions.