It isn't supposed to be an exciting language. It specifically not fancy. Great for teams. Forced style consistency. Clear expectations. Difficult to mis-read compared to most others. Terse, almost rude.
Great summary. If one has to maintain a program full of "exciting" code, or just come back to it after some years, one is extremely happy for code which is written in a clear, simple style.
Unfortunately, I have had to deal with too much "exciting" code. So I am very happy with Go so far and this latest concept of generics seems to add the least amount of complexity for the problems it solves.
I find it much easier on the eyes than java.