In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don’t have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement, because they (mindlessly) copied it from C, which (mindlessly) copied it from Assembly, but more modern languages like Swift and Kotlin don’t even have a goto statement anymore.
There is no goto in Java.
Edit: And the use of goto in the kernel is to increase readability, not just for performance. C requires a lot of manual memory management so cleanups before returning are common. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/process/coding-style.html