Designing better error handling in Go is an ongoing work. Proposols are being considered. Personally I don't see a big problem in real life Go code bases.

Note that there is kind of a philosophical cul-de-sac here. If you understand and expect your "errors" (= exceptional situations that prevent the program to do what we thought the user wanted) you can handle them, and they become part of your program normal logic.

If you don't understand or ainticipate your errors, or choose to neglect situations that are not really rare or are really dangerous, no amount of special language constructs will save your users.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...