Assuming you are saying that those things are a contradiction I don't agree. It's a perfectly legitimate position to design a language to have fewer 'advanced' features; it makes it easier to learn, there are fewer ways to trip yourself up unexpectedly. Of course on the other hand you may find yourself re-inventing the advanced language features yourself, probably not as well, or committing errors that could have been prevented. I don't think there is a right answer. Go takes a position, and that position is similar to the one taken by the original Java.
Anyway, you took my post in the wrong light. I used insults like those because I was using the language of Java critics[1], which was, you know, the joke. The intelligence one in particular was a riff on an insult by a good friend of yours:
Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java’s designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them. — Paul Graham
