Agreed. Because golang is "simple", the actual code base becomes a mess, littered with 10 line functions that are basically map/filter/etc. calls, which can be

Agreed. Because golang is "simple", the actual code base becomes a mess, littered with 10 line functions that are basically map/filter/etc. calls, which can be written on a single line in a proper modern language. The majority of golang code bases I've seen are much more difficult to follow compared to if they had been written in something like Java or C#.