That's funny. I don't mind writing code. The code I like the best is the code I don't have to debug.
You should mind writing code that the compiler can write for you, which is exactly what you do when you don't have exceptions (you simulate bubbling up the error manually).
The code you don't have to write, you also don't have to debug.
So you SHOULD mind writing code.
While in Go this may be the case, it is not true in general. One could use an error monad to achieve the exact same thing, albeit in a much safer manner.
But we're talking Go here.