It pulls no such sleight of hand, and you have invented a wholesale strawman.

It's also simply poorly informed. Go is a fantastically enjoyable language to program in. In many ways that has been a bit of its curse compared to languages like Rust (which is legitimately a not fun language to write it, and which AI tools are also very good at writing), because keeping the language simple has hobbled some edge cases.

I don't write a lot of Go as my professional life has pushed me more to Rust, but Go and Object Pascal are easily the two most enjoyable languages I've ever developed in.