I strongly disagree with this view for applications, and mildly disagree for infrastructure projects.

There is one thing I believe Go is by far and away the leader at: keeping codebases maintainable over time.

Go is designed very clearly with this goal and it's excellent at it. The verbosity you complain about makes it much, much clearer what something is doing. That coupled with some of the baked in opinions means it is significantly more straightforward to pick up code that you or someone else wrote a few years ago and modify it.