Non-idiomatic Go (or as you call it "bizarre hacks disguised as cleverness") is frowned upon. One example that comes to mind is the Martini web framework[1], which, once pointed out, resulted in a rewrite[2].
[1] https://github.com/go-martini/martini [2] https://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martin...