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I think it doesn't hurt that most if not all of the packages needed for code generation are built into the language's standard library.

Dunno, but would guess this is consultancy-driven. Nobody would generate code they need to maintain afterwards.

In the example of DB schema though, could be a way to avoid ORM but still import schema into code. Code generation is not all barf.

Generics are being planned for golang.

I think it's. Usually, compiler generates each concrete implementation for generic. But in go, that's programmer's job. Maybe it's trade off for language's simplicity.

This is an opportunity to use a higher-level DRY language to drive the code generator, and treat Go like assembly.