Agree. I wasn't at all convinced by the examples showing the Echo was somehow better than using the "built in" signatures, especially since there's quite a bit

Agree. I wasn't at all convinced by the examples showing the Echo was somehow better than using the "built in" signatures, especially since there's quite a bit of handling that Echo (and things like it) makes implicit that you'll probably want to be explicit in some edge case. Coming from WSGI, I found go's middlwares familiar and positively pleasant. I too ended up on Chi as the router that worked well without getting in the way.