Whether that verbosity improves 'clarity' depends on what exactly you're most interested in seeing. If you primarily value being able to see the control flow fo

Whether that verbosity improves 'clarity' depends on what exactly you're most interested in seeing. If you primarily value being able to see the control flow for error conditions, then it does indeed improve 'clarity'. However, regardless of what you value, that increased 'clarity' necessarily comes at the expense of the readability of the non-error control flow.