In code that uses Go reflection, it is common that the user prints the type. However, it easy for people (out of habit) to use %T with a reflect.Type when they should actually be using %v instead.

For example:

t := reflect.TypeOf(...)
if checkValid(t) {
    panic(fmt.Sprintf("invalid type: %T", t)) // incorrect: should be using %v
}

It is unlikely that the wrong verb is detected during code review.

In the instances similar to this, I don't think I saw a single case where a person actually wanted to print the type of reflect.Type itself (which by the way is *reflect.rtype and not particularly interesting for users).

\cc @dominikh in case this is a check better suited for staticcheck than vet.