People will inevitably argue about (a) what's really important, and (b) what's really the correct way. But they didn't create Go. It's clear where Go's creator stand on the issues.
Well, that and also one which produces a mapping between local paths and repository locations so that you don't need much (or any, in most cases) package metadata or a central directory service, creating a decentralized/distributed package management system.
> That's the highest goal, but of course the burden of it is that paths below /src must be kinda long to support it.
I suppose, but I'm not sure long paths is really all that big of a burden.