Comment by allreduce

That's a deficit of most programming languages. One solution is to pass every error value up and let the caller decide. Rust does this to some extent. This leads to verbose code however.

For modules inside your application, designing a good interface involves exposing the right errors and crashing for the rest. This creates some coupling of course (shared assumptions of which errors need to be handled across modules). Trying to avoid that probably just leads into the circle of hell where you have more abstract beancounting than useful code.

In the end, this is another reason why overreliance on external libraries leads to mediocre, buggy software.