I'm not sure how repeatedly apologizing for the slower compile time, promising that it's going to get better again in the future, putting an entirely new backend on the compiler, and making it a big focus of every single post about the last three Go versions constitutes being "suddenly totally fine".
To be hypocritical, there must be a difference between words and actions; it looks to me like "we're really concerned about compile times" has been backed up by actions, even if there was a regression. I don't recall them ever promising that there would never be a compile time regression because it was their #1 concern; what I recall them promising as their #1 concern was almost-but-not-quite total backwards compatibility, which they've maintained.
To be hypocritical, there must be a difference between words and actions; it looks to me like "we're really concerned about compile times" has been backed up by actions, even if there was a regression. I don't recall them ever promising that there would never be a compile time regression because it was their #1 concern; what I recall them promising as their #1 concern was almost-but-not-quite total backwards compatibility, which they've maintained.