Follow-up to Change-Id: If6e52c59eab438599d641ecf6f110ebafca740a9

This addresses the remaining tech debt on issue 21979.

The aforementioned previous CL silenced one of two mostly redundant
compiler errors. However, the silenced error was the more expressive
error. This CL now imbues the surviving error with the same level
of expressiveness as the old semi-redundant error.

Fixes #21979

Change-Id: I3273d48c88bbab073fabe53421d801df621ce321
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/191079
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>