Simply embedding the type and writing whatever additional methods you need is actually incredibly easy. The boilerplate beyond what is required to actually define the new functions is really tiny
I think that's actually one of the places Go works really well. It sounds like you want something like C#'s extension methods, which I don't think are a good thing (I used them a bunch in a past job). The problem with them is that it means your code can spontaneously and mysteriously break if you move it somewhere else that isn't including the project that has the extensions. Extensions seemed nice, but they really only made the code a tiny bit cleaner, and the added complexity did not really make up for it, in my opinion.