Honestly I hadn't thought about it like that, but I would say you're mostly right. It is pretty bland and there's no surprises (or at least only a few), but isn't that a good feature in programming language?

I think it's better than say C og C++, because I have an easier time understand and writing Go, but that's very individual and may not apply to others. I don't like Java because of it's verbosity and overly complex ways of doing simple things, but I haven't looked at Java for years, so that may have changed.