Comment by higerordermap

This is told so often told that people believe it is true

The lack of any type of abstraction is not great for teams. The need to write boilerplate code harms readability more than writeability.

Understanding what a single statement does is not important. Understanding intent is more important. And Go provides very few tools on it.

The reason for Go's popularity is mostly tooling. I like structural typing too. But other than that it is a very tedious language.