He forgot the most important factor to Go's success: ignorance is bliss. Imagine releasing such a mediocre language only a decade ago an still be very popular
It's a fairly simple language, which makes it relatively easy to grasp and understand the majority of Go code. This is particularly useful for group development (i.e. in companies), where you want everyone to understand each others' work.
Anecdotally, although I prefer to write Rust, and consider it a better language in many ways, it took me a lot longer to learn the language, and longer still to write idiomatic Rust code. I was up to speed with Golang relatively quickly.
Yours is not criticism, it's just ignorant bashing of a perfectly productive language that people adopted not because they're more stupid than you but because it made them more productive for whatever reason.
No one forces you to code in Go if you don't like it. Fine, but don't belittle others if you're not prepared to understand why it's got so popular. Ignorance is bliss.
that's either reductive or a strawman, if not both. afaict golang doesn't lack for criticism on hn, but most people do so without being insulting or hostile.
Apart from "They should have done it the way I like!", the main criticism I have seen is lack of generics. That's a pretty common complaint, from a lot of different people.
On the other hand, Golang is a much simpler language. It's relatively easy to learn and understand.
They are quite far apart in many spectrums.
They're both statically typed compiled system programming languages; both trying to provide solutions for safe memory and concurrency.
But this doesn't necessarily mean that these languages share a great deal of sensible usecases.
Rust and Go make very different tradeoffs.