Exceptions are invisible control flow. You have no guarantees about what piece of code will execute anywhere in your codebase. I agreed with you maybe 2-3 years ago but have since done a hard 180 in that opinion after seriously using a language with no exceptions. I'm too stupid to reason about exception control flow, just like I am too stupid to do manual memory management.

There are also huge differences between exception alternatives, and I definitely think more progress is possible. I also dislike how Go approaches exceptionless, but Rust does a far better job. Hare seems like it could have one of the best approaches (so far) but I haven't actually used it.

Erlang/Elixir/Gleam are also something I want to try out. Allowing things to just crash and restart is definitely a different perspective worth learning about.