This is especially evident for those who used golang for non-trivial projects. Because the language has very poor support for abstractions and higher level constructs, you end up with much more verbose, brittle code that's harder to modify and read. IMO, the language designers, by optimizing for a language that's relatively easy to pick up* have pushed the complexity onto the programmer.

* Any language has its paradigms that need to be learned, and golang is no different. Just because you can learn the syntax in a couple of sittings does not mean you know how to use the language in an effective matter. Something I see many people not bring up.