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Nowadays when this happens it's always something. "Something went wrong."

Even the error message itself is wrong whenever that one appears.

Displaying and propagating accurate error messages is an entire science unto itself... ...I can see why it's sometimes sensible to invest resource elsewhere and fall back to 'something'.

IMHO if error handling is rocket science, the error is you

Perhaps you're not handling enough errors ;-)

I use the term “unexpected error” because if the code got to this alert it wasn’t caught by any traps I’d made for the “expected” errors.

Reddit shows:

"Too many requests. Your request has been rate limited, please take a break for a couple minutes and try again."

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