I think it's fine for tools to be complex internally if they make things easier for people externally. Go is generally simple to work with, but it intentionall

I think it's fine for tools to be complex internally if they make things easier for people externally. Go is generally simple to work with, but it intentionally doesn't provide syntax sugar for many things, like error handling. I suspect this is because the creators of Go also want to keep their codebase simple as well. At first this explicitness is great, but then it turns into boilerplate, obscures the purpose of your code, and increases the code you need to maintain. But having worked a lot with Rails, I do still value the explicitness of Go. So it's a tradeoff.