Go's syntax is really easy to most programmers who is willing to learn. It's probably just 1 days work to pick it up. It's very similar to Swift's syntax in many aspects, and I don't hear anyone complaining Swift's syntax is not intuitive and just for the sake of being different.
Perhaps instead of just claiming you can give us some examples on "syntax is all over the place" part?
This is exactly how this sentence should look like, no need for any language at the beginning. While syntax does matter (and I only recently arrived at this conclusion) its "intuitiveness" or "similarity" is utterly unimportant. You either are a "real programmer" and have no problem picking up different syntaxes and semantics, or you're not. That's all there is to it.
Also, swift has an API that's familiar to ObjC devs which means it's just changing brackets. It's pretty easy to port a ObjC program to swift line by line.