This is a weirdly defensive comment, fighting against a strawman. The article doesn't claim it's surprising, that "invalidates" Go or that it isn't the "natural way of things".
I'm not pushing back against the article, but against the comments that tend to appear below articles like this. The headline in particular, to someone who doesn't read the article, could be taken as "Discord has decided that Rust is better than Go and here's why", and run with.
