Everything in Golang seems pretty complicated and nonintuitive compared to any other modern language. But "it's all well thought out"!
It’s a simple language with simple, explicit, verbose, tedious, pedantic patterns. The communication resulting from those patterns is where the value lies for a lot of developers and teams.
In general I agree that it does lead to code that's more familiar even if it was written by someone else. Having only used it a few months now, I can definitely see where the value in go lies.