also note that Java has checked exceptions, and a lot of programmers still opt to deal with errors in a lazy way.

Same for error codes, go has explicit error, and several programmers still opt to deal with errors in a lazy way.

I think the syntax and semantical contructs a language offers doesnt matter much when a lot of programmers dont have time and/or discipline and/or priority to deal with error cases.

Error handling is hard. Also, since programmers in general think less about errors, library often dont expose errors in helpful ways and/or well-defined ways.