One point is now you dont have to pay money to 3rd world countries like mine :(, you can manage with fewer resources inhouse. AI will take care of slop work.
There is a lot of luck involved too, the conditions we are born, family ,people we are friends with early on and so on, just because there are few outliers does not everyone can follow same.
It has been my go to language since 2020. I was given a task to complete in a week and my lead told just go through Go playground and write the code (it was some snmp receiver/transmit stuff). To my surprise it was so easy to learn, write and more importantly test. Only recent thing i have not learned is generics, hopefully will get their sooner. Coming from java background the things Go did felt so clever and just too good to believe
I am working full time , then try to preparing for senior software engineer interviews in evenings for a new job plus side projects. It is really exhausting. There is just so much peer pressure to create something amazing, be at a great job with top pay.