This argument doesn't hold with me, because while try-catch is very clear in what it does, the exception-/throwing/ mechanism is not. Try-catch is only useful

This argument doesn't hold with me, because while try-catch is very clear in what it does, the exception-/throwing/ mechanism is not. Try-catch is only useful insofar as you know exactly what you're trying to catch. Anything else is basically undefined behaviour; a jump straight to your catch block from anywhere in the application, as far as your intuition is concerned, a far cry from the controlled nature of loops.