Comment by stmw

And that was really my (unpopular) opinion above - that exceptions and garbage collectors are two examples of runtime/compiler/language features that after some iteration around the corner cases tend to end up in roughly the same place Java did 20+ years ago - as you say, "if you squint a bit".

It is interesting to think why it is so for exceptions specifically. The discussion here offers some of the possible reasons, I think, including violent disagreement of what we all even mean by exceptions vs stack unwinding vs error propagation.