You're absolutely technically correct, in the "spherical cow in a vacuum" sense. In reality though, essentially all Go code out there handles errors through the pattern of checking if the error in a `(value, error)` tuple returned from a function is `nil` or not. That is what the discussion here is about - the way errors are handled in a language in practice, not in theory. Therefore, pedantry.

Basically, discussions have context and I have no intention of prepending 10 disclaimers to every statement I make to preemptively guard against people interpreting my comments as absolutes in a vacuum.