They aren't C++ levels bad, but they are slow enough to be distracting/flow breaking. Something like dart/flutter or even TS and frontend with hot reload is much leaner. Comparing to fully dynamic languages is kind of unfair in that regard.
I did not try Go yet but from what I've read (and also seeing the language design philosophy) I suspect it's faster than C#/Java.
Many things that Google uses to sell Java (the language) over Kotlin also steems from how bad they approach the whole infrastructure.
Try using Java on Eclipse with compilation on save.
This idea that it's all sunshine and lollipops for other languages is wrong.
Lets not mix build tools with compilers.
This however has nothing to do with Java — Kotlin compiler is written Kotlin, and Gradle is written in unholy mix of Kotlin, Java and Groovy (with later being especially notorious for being slow).