I find Go code ideal for maintainability, with the "one way to do things" philosophy. Developers often don't like Go precisely because it does not allow them to do "clever" things.

Go is also not performance obsessed - else it would not have opted for garbage collection by default.

As far as variable naming goes, Go convention says - the further from its declaration a variable is used, the more explicit and qualified the name should be to disambiguate it. This to me strikes as being eminently sensible.