And make all future work both 3 times simpler, and take 3 times as long. I suppose there’s situations in which this is great, but I’m partial to requiring more.
I’ll admit that hasn’t worked out very well for me unless I’m working my myself though.
People who disagree have never had to wake up at 3 in the morning to fix a critical production issue in someone else's code. And that someone else really loved "elegant and terse" code.
It's not fun to grok your brain around weird language trickery when you're half-awake and in a hurry to fix stuff before the customers wake up.
People tend to write bad code. It's a fact of life. Tools forcing people who write bad code to write better code can't be worse tools by definition. They are better tools.
Go actively prevents you from writing stupid code, it doesn't give you the tools to do cool code golf tricks