Very common misrepresentation of any critique of Go. "You just don't get simplicity, you got them Java brainwormz"...

There are many examples in the article that point out the annoying inconsistencies in the language, those are the opposite of simplicity.

I love Rob Pike's presentations on Go, some of them were eye-opening to me. However, I just wish that the Go I see in practice would be much closer to the Go language that Go-fans describe in abstract.