Yes: I do say Rust was a struggle and go is a relief. Yes: rust has very little in common with go. Yes: Rust is very explicit and go is not. Yes: Other people find go refreshing because the syntax is more limited and it looks simple on paper. So, you're right.

IMO: Go is a very "productive" and clean lang/platform when comparing to Rust. It's depends what you're using it for. In my case (for concurrent backends) Go came as a bliss. And that was before AI (vibecoding).