The key point here is our programmers… ​They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language… So, ​the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand ―Rob ‘Commander’ Pike, creator of Go

And here’s a related blog post: https://valuedrivenit.blogspot.com/2015/12/to-go-language-is-mess.html?m=1

It’s a very opinionated language in the worst way possible.