Go's a language for managers that don't trust their developers with their own intelligence. It's either a good thing or a bad thing.
Go is actually simpler than PHP as a language, once one understands "explicit" pointers (though PHP does expose pointers for a few things, arrays for instance since they are copied by default).
As for PHP, it's useful IN SPITE of itself, and that's the issue, the language works against the developer and only the tooling, frameworks and rigorous security practices can mitigate its flaws.
Go is actually simpler than PHP as a language, once one understands "explicit" pointers (though PHP does expose pointers for a few things, arrays for instance since they are copied by default).
As for PHP, it's useful IN SPITE of itself, and that's the issue, the language works against the developer and only the tooling, frameworks and rigorous security practices can mitigate its flaws.