People do low-commitment exploration of new tech all the time, perhaps offhandedly download some new language compiler to see what all the fuss is about. Even a modestly negative experience can easily tip the scales for them to lose interest and go do something else.
You have to consider that go users can come from worst places(i.e. Java or Interpreted dynamic languages) so just getting a statically compiled binary to deploy it's already a big improvement.
People do low-commitment exploration of new tech all the time, perhaps offhandedly download some new language compiler to see what all the fuss is about. Even a modestly negative experience can easily tip the scales for them to lose interest and go do something else.