Pedantry on my part, but annotated does not mean including a stack trace, simply that it includes a description of the error. Given it's a non-nil check, you ne

Pedantry on my part, but annotated does not mean including a stack trace, simply that it includes a description of the error. Given it's a non-nil check, you never gave a guarantee it's valuable, but the error is itself at minimum an annotation. panic brings important context, but you're right in that it's not an annotation in itself. It's a program flow mechanism, but I'd argue it's very often utilized as an error flow one. My larger point was that this still doesn't feel like an "antipattern" and I see that word thrown around enough as a conversation stopper that I've become pretty cynical about it.