They're talking about "Go 2" the brand, not Go 2.0 being a new major version having breaking changes to Go 1.x. There are no plans for a breaking-changes Go 2, only occasional additions to Go 1.x under an ongoing "Go 2" developer relations effort.
There was discussion of a breaking Go 2 in the early days (though it would be opted-into by individual modules -- similar to the Rust edition system but with more significant changes). I think the plan now is to only have minor breaking changes -- the originally-proposed (outright breaking) syntax changes aren't in the current proposals.
But yes, the current Go 2 proposals are much nicer than the originals. But they do still contain some subtle breaking changes (though they have said they'd add vet warnings beforehand so it shouldn't be too bad).
