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> it is designed to be friendly to enterprises who have to produce code

Our two person engineering team has found this to be the ultimate form of user-friendliness as our goal is to pragmatically deliver software.

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I think what they're saying is that you need more code in Go, which is inherently unfriendly to developers, to produce an equivalent output in other languages. And to a certain extent that is true, but it disregards the intangible benefits of Go, such as it's balance between simplicity and the ability to make it perform.

No. I'm rephrasing the design intent for the language, as outlined in various talks. For example, here: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article

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