I think that's plausible, even though Google's intentions with it were the opposite: I've had the opportunity to talk with a few people who were involved in Go

I think that's plausible, even though Google's intentions with it were the opposite: I've had the opportunity to talk with a few people who were involved in Go's design and they explicitly said the idea was to get fresh-out-of-school programmers to be productive on web systems immediately.