We already run go vet but there are additional static analyzers out there that can offer value.

gopls added nilness and unusedparam and recently
https://github.com/golang/tools/releases/tag/gopls%2Fv0.15.0

problems nilness found
https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/pull/3698

problems nilenss would have prevented
https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/pull/3661

Go might enable this in go vet in the future
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59714

Example invocation

go install golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/nilness/cmd/nilness@latest
go vet -vettool $(which nilness) ./...