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A good linter can help people see where their code isn't concise and give nudges toward better style. Clearly, being concise can sometimes mean being opaque, but in this case it's not, the boilerplate dilutes the meaning without adding value.

Go was developed as a highly opinionated language in which this style of imperative code is apparently preferred. Similarly, the ternary operator shines as a way to use a single assignment to obtain a value that follows from a concise boolean expression, but the ternary operator is wholly omitted from Golang.

Although, being opinionated is not in itself a bad thing. If you want to create something, it helps to have a viewpoint that gives you something to say.