One thing I’ll say about Go, and why I love it. I’ve been coding for decades, and it’s one of the few languages where I find it very easy to read and understand other peoples code.
“ Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.”
There are a lot of cases where these tradeoffs suck and add a bunch of unnecessary friction. And there are many cases where it boosts overall productivity significantly.
I've always considered Scala to be the linear opposite of Go, where over time they have bolted more and more (advanced) features and syntax until you end up with libraries and code as extreme as scalaz [1], and of course every developer will have their own Opinion on how things should be written, formatted, etc. Scala adds choice, Go reduces it.
Oftentimes the argument is "but you don't have to use all these features! you can write Scala just like Java", but in practice that's not how it works. I mean just a for loop is already a headscratcher in Scala.
Not sure if it's the language, culture, or both, but I love it.