The article is fairly specific: The first example: - no stack trace - loosing the specifics of error to troubleshoot. The second example: - explicitly discard

The article is fairly specific: The first example: - no stack trace - loosing the specifics of error to troubleshoot. The second example: - explicitly discards the stack trace - explicitly discards the error specifics. Hence, if this is really what you want. fine, but in a lot of cases you do want to see stack traces and the exact reasons (and meta data why an error was thrown).