> If you give someone the ability to understand a brilliant language, they will turn their attention to the language and away from the problem. That's just human nature.

Not sure which languages you define as brilliant but I’ve never seen this pattern anywhere in my career, in any language. Including Rust, which is often offered by Go fans as an example of an esoteric exotic language.

In everywhere I’ve seen, people are focused on solving some engineering problem, not on showing off their brilliance by solving language puzzles.

This defense of Go is REALLY common but as far as I can tell is purely based on myth.