I have no idea if anyone is using Go 1.16 with fsnotify.
Go 1.16 (released August 2021) became mandatory with v1.5.1 (August
2021). Go 1.17 was released just a few days before it was tagged. Some
people did experience problems (#400), but overall the feedback was
limited.
So based on this, I think it's probably safe to just follow the Go
release policy: "Each major Go release is supported until there are two
newer major releases."