I'll echo this. When I'm looking at a Go codebase that somebody else wrote, it's a minimal effort to understand what it does. Rarely, if ever, do I scratch my head at a particularly clever type derivation or obscure language feature; macros are pretty much non-existent; even user-defined types are easily reduced by the IDE and language server. Patterns are standardized and yes, it's verbose, but predictably so. If something calls for containerization, it's dead simple. Go is a language for getting things done straightforwardly.

I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, and that's fine. There's room for different languages in the world. But I'm knocking out useful utilities that make a difference for my team and business in days or hours, and supremely uninterested in code golf, so I don't personally agree with the criticisms.