> More than some other language communities, there have been times when it's seemed -- right or wrong, it's hard not to get this impression from the vantage point of an ordinary developer -- that the Go team has historically been somewhat distant, preferring to unleash finished implementations on the world instead of evolving their designs in collaboration with the community (cough vgo vs. Dep)

I think one reason may be that "constrained minimalism" and "internet community" are two things that don't really play nice together.