> You're a human talking to other humans.

Okay. Let's put that to the test. Describe my human features. What do I look like, sound like?

> and my impression is that there's a sizable group of people who would have been happier if one of the proposals had been merged.

Fair enough. What do they say to the specific criticism that brought rejection?

> Sure, if you think that the people who make the language are infallibly able to both know and care about what's good for 100% of Go programmers

They satisfy 100% of Go programmers, but not all programmers. Those who aren't satisfied are already using another language or have forked Go to make it what they actually need. Even Google uses their own fork, funnily enough. If something doesn't work for you, you can't sensibly continue to use it.