It's not cliche, it's just personal. For instance, most of the code I write is numerical code. To that end, any language without operator overloading is a non-starter, since it's far harder to find a bug in:
div(add(mult(-1,b),sqrt(sub(pow(b,2),mult(mult(3,a),c)))),mult(2,a))
than it is in
(-b+sqrt(b^2-3ac))/(2*a)
On the other hand, if I wrote server code, operator overloading would be far less useful. I'd probably curse any programmer who used it and thank the gods that it was left out of Go.
Conversely, since I write a lot of numerical code, I don't care about generics or typing, which is crucial to many other programmers. Generics don't matter since everything I work with is either a Double or a collection of Doubles. Similarly, static typing doesn't help, since most functions just have the type (Double -> Double) and the type checker can't tell a sine from a logarthim. Of course, the reverse is also true. Since everything is either a double or a collection of doubles, the fancy tricks that dynamic languages offer don't give me a damn thing, so I'm extremely ambivalent about the typing debate.
Of course, on other projects, I've written code that benefited from static typing and I've written valid code that would choke any type checker. I've written code that heavily needed generics. When I did that, I used the languages that had the features I needed.
Go just won't work for the programs I write and it sounds like it doesn't work for yours, either. That's why we won't use Go. I've heard it works wonderfully for a certain class of server software and I'm glad those guys have a useful language for their domain. If I ever have to write another server, I might even teach myself Go. But don't feel guilty that you're using an old hammer instead of the shiny new saw.