>They find themselves duplicating the same code again and again because Go doesn’t provide good abstractions to reuse code. Or that they write a ton of code to do what could be achieved in a few lines in a reasonable language.

This.

>You learn the language in a week because there is not a lot to learn.

Exactly. For example, Brainfuck is even simpler and easier than go. It also produces even worse, unmaintainable, horrible code.