Go is a nice language growing in popularity, but it's not a C replacement.
Garbage collection, big runtime, and non-zero-cost FFI are acceptable trade-offs in many areas of programming, but they are deal-breakers for domains where C (or Rust) is necessary.
Rust is somewhat similar to C++ in the feature set, but not in complexity. Rust's features are more orthogonal, without duplication and backwards-compat warts, and you get hand-holding by the compiler.
C is "misused" for a lot of things and Go is a contender in those areas though.
Technically you could be right about complexity vs. feature set, but from the POV of someone that's using a simple language, the two don't look that different. One does help you avoid certain errors, although whether that counts as hand holding or hand slapping is in the eye of the beholder.
Garbage collection, big runtime, and non-zero-cost FFI are acceptable trade-offs in many areas of programming, but they are deal-breakers for domains where C (or Rust) is necessary.
Rust is somewhat similar to C++ in the feature set, but not in complexity. Rust's features are more orthogonal, without duplication and backwards-compat warts, and you get hand-holding by the compiler.