If it was created on purpose for poor programmers, it seems to have been created to enable poor programmers to write the poor code they wanted to write, instead of making it impossible for poor programmers to write any code.

I guess that's the difference, if you want code, no matter the quality, you have one choice, if you want code that's correct, you have another.

Yeah

I feel Go is simple in the way people say "C is simple" (without the footgun part)

It was created for one purpose and it kinda works but it's clunky. Like there are no fancy front loaders or backhoes and there's a limit on how much out of that form you can get.