Yeah, it's pretty much optimized for junior programmers to write babby's first enterprise network service in. It's got a lot of features junior programmers think are nice and easy to work with, but as you mature as a developer its verbosity becomes annoying and its shortcomings become apparent.

Using Go as a PHP alternative is pretty much the use case most aligned with its niche. So go nuts if you like doing that. But stray too far from that use case and Go will start to provide pain without adequate justification, especially when compared against Zig, Rust, or even TypeScript.