Yup, that's the tradeoff that most people somehow don't get: Go is maybe a bit more awkward and verbose to write than other languages, but it's much easier to read and refactor. My work with Go is (unfortunately) mostly private side projects which I sometimes have to leave for months, so I already learned to appreciate this years ago. Plus I also programmed in Delphi for years, so maybe some of the Pascal-inspired features of Go that programmers accustomed only to C-family languages find alien seem familiar to me.