a variety of complex programs are being built and deployed in Golang without generics, which makes it an open question as to whether they're required at all.

Similarly, a variety of complex programs are being built and deployed in [any other language] without Go, which makes it an open question as to whether Go is required at all.

My point isn't that Go isn't needed. It's that this argument against generics in Go is hypocritical and contradictory to the whole reason Go exists.