I recommend the Terasic DE10-Nano. Because of the MiSTer (https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki) project, a cottage industry has formed around addons for this board which makes it a good choice for hobbyists who may want additional peripherals.
If anything this is just a nomenclature problem. It's common for Go packages to have New* functions for common use cases and this is one example. After looking at the source it is very clear what it does.