Just my 0.02, but I started my primary project in Golang this year (a first for me) and have genuinely enjoyed getting deeper into using the language. Great tools, great community, and a clever language -- what more could you want?

In my limited experience so far, I just keep finding out how to do something then wondering why it's so complicated.

Things I could do in Python in ~10 lines, seem to require at least double in Go.

I'll keep learning it though, I'm sure I'll start to see the benefits soon!

Absolutely, the language is well designed with good tools but it isn’t very eloquent. I find other languages much more enjoyable to work with Ruby, Typescript, Kotlin or even Java.