I agree with you in spirit, but you should be a bit more up-front about the fact that Conformal's bitcoind implementation is written in the "Go" language.
There's nothing wrong with that, but there also isn't much demand outside of Conformal for a bitcoin client written in Go. If one of their major motivations was to contribute to the bitcoin community they would have chosen a language that more bitcoiners know and therefore can contribute in. In other words, their contribution is primarily to the Go community here, not the bitcoin community.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that the Go language is a problem based on the number of non-Go programmers I've heard say, "wow, I can actually understand their code."
Having a codebase that's approachable and well-architected is a great contribution even if nobody else ever writes any Bitcoin code in Go.
Even if that weren't the case, your post implies that the Bitcoin community is the development community. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Btcd gives non-developer users the ability to contribute to the network by running a full node without also requiring them to store m (users) * n (devices) copies of the blockchain. That's huge usability improvement in its own right.