That's usually a good heuristic. But Kotlin has better IDEs, tools, debuggers, profilers etc than Go. Partly because it's made by a developer tools company (they make many of the top IDEs), and partly because it can leverage all the tools made for Java.

WRT not needing a JVM, I don't perceive much advantage to avoiding one unless you need small downloads i.e. desktop apps. But Go isn't suitable for that use case really anyway.