I see no reason for the linter to recommend it unless you are using if err != nil {return err} - if you are, it is functionally the same, therefore no change an

I see no reason for the linter to recommend it unless you are using if err != nil {return err} - if you are, it is functionally the same, therefore no change and it would be recommended, which is fine IMO. I don't really see the danger here - if you want to annotate errors properly, do so, if you want to respond in place (with a retry for example), do so, if you don't do either and just return the error (which is sometimes fine) yes the linter would recommend the shorter version. Where's the problem?