this is one of the most salient reasons why it is a sad state of affairs that the Go implementation of bitcoin is so poorly funded and maintained:

building bitcoin core, in comparison, is 15-60 minutes depending on how much of the preparation work and how fast your internet connection is to download over half a gigabyte of material to be able to do it.

btcd repository is 45mb in size, go compiler is 120mb.

not only that, but half the lightning network runs off btcd via lnd.

yet everyone is swallowing this hooey that bitcoin core is the canonical version.

it's a close competitor to node_modules for its mass.

sure, you can nit pick and point out that btcd doesn't have a GUI on it but seriously, um. yeah. btcd + zap wallet gives you all that plus lightning.

(btw, i helped fix zap so it could be used with your own btcd, the configuration wasn't persisting when i tried it and they fixed it days later).

jack mallers and several other bitcoin devs will tell you that you can do way more with Go than you can with this other 50 different tools garbage.