Nothing ridiculous about it. I work on a Java code base where there is try catch every 4-5 lines. The application is working fine and nobody is unduly worried about fine taste in exception handling. If application were in Go it would have err != nil every few line that would also be fine for us.

With all the things that you mention Go does not offer helps it keep simple. It has already proven much useful for many of of my projects where a 'better' language would fail for variety of reasons.