I agree completely. Go is opinionated about the wrong things, in the wrong way. Which in the end make it a worse language than it could have been.

One thing you did not mention is very varied quality of the standard library. I’m still baffled about ”standard date” crazyness. There are huge warts in the sql interface etc

My collegues used to joke golang is a great solution to google’s problems (for others, not as good as it arguably could have been to put it mildly)