The biggest criticisms that i've heard of Go is that the error handling ends up with a lot of boilerplate due to the syntax, and previously people also complained about the lack of generics (which is now being added and refined).

If anything, i would expect people to be more negative towards PHP because, while the language and its ecosystem have both come a long way towards being pleasant to work in and overall capable, i'm sure that plenty out there have ran into horrible WordPress sites/plugins or old and neglected codebases with bespoke frameworks that have no documentation and that are just horrible to work with.

In contrast, to me Go actually feels like what Pascal should have been.