It's irksome when the auto formatter does something ugly. Though, I think the issue is far worse with Perl tidy. With, gofmt my view is more "I don't like this bit but fuck it." Probably because, Go has much simpler syntax.
Both languages (being bastard children of C) often run into exactly the same problems, where the syntax doesn't differ greatly. If you e.g. are accustomed to having indentation without tabs, margins within function calls or prefer non-tabular variable declarations, you can have that in C, Perl, Pike, Java, etc..
