Weeeelp… I See both sides of this. There’s some things you anticipate to go wrong, like a disk being out of space, or an API to not respond. Those are the type

Weeeelp… I See both sides of this. There’s some things you anticipate to go wrong, like a disk being out of space, or an API to not respond. Those are the type of things you can (and should strive to!) provide meaningful error messages for. But then, there’s also that class of things that fail in exciting and unexpected ways: a bit randomly flipping in memory, a cable detached in an untimely moment, a missing system library that was there when the program started… you cannot enumerate all things that may fail unexpectedly, hence the only viable solution is to have a special case for those - „Unexpected error“ doesn’t sound wrong from that perspective. Still, it’s completely useless to the human in front of the machine, so there’s that.