Networking prowess of Go is often underrated in these discussions. Building an web application with server, router, mux, auth etc. all from standard library and just deploying the binary blob on the cloud (irrespective of the architecture) to get your application running with less effort than competing programming languages/frameworks is itself enough for most use cases.

Zero Go-related issues during the whole project. Just drop in one executable and one config file and it just works.

In python you could also implement the API framework, do unit testing, TLS, packaging using standard library. And similarly there are 3rd party frameworks for Go as well.

However, for a lone wolf project, I'd lean more on something like gorm, than just hand-craft and maintain lots of sql.

Another misconception is that it's all for inexperienced programmers. But you need decades of experience to appreciate all the opinionated tradeoffs already made in Go.

It's just one more tool though, and nowhere near FP, which is a different beast altogether. Lots of features around Go and ecosystem is clearly inspired from Haskell. That might be another good tool from the other end of the spectrum.