I personally find Go's bare syntax harder to parse when reading, and I spend more time reading code than typing it (even while writing).

An excessively terse syntax becomes very unforgiving, when a typo is not noticed by the compiler / language server, but results in another syntactically correct but unexpected program, or registers as a cryptic error much farther downstream. Cases in point: CoffeeScript, J.

Removing stuff doesn't necessarily make the syntax better, otherwise we'd all use Lisp and the space bar wouldn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua