“Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”

I hate to have to refer to something so stereotypically "Hacker News" (as it was witten by Paul Graham), but this seems like a great example of the Blub Paradox playing out: C++ and D offer some really key features that all those other languages don't, so the reason you are more willing to tolerate Go is because you don't find yourself thinking "how could someone seriously have designed a language without these key features". Now, you might try to argue that it is somehow C++/D that are missing out, but FWIW: I have been programming in Python for seven years, and have probably at this point written as much if not more Python than I ever did C++, and the only reason I do it is because there are some "trivial" (and yet key) tooling and library advantages... the language itself honestly just feels "dumb".