> Surely the exact same criticism could be leveraged at go proponents pointing out the exact same features they love every time

This thread was started by someone complaining about lack of generics.

> should discussions of Go simply stop until the next major release, and only new features (if any) be discussable?

Why? Because there's no reasonable middle ground between "don't ever talk about Go until there's a release" and "hijack every thread about Go"?

Note my point in that line was not about criticism, but about thread hijacking.