And this isn't theoretical. I've seen ignored errors do damage in the past. Was infuriating to see that we had set a top-level exception handler in our server t

And this isn't theoretical. I've seen ignored errors do damage in the past. Was infuriating to see that we had set a top-level exception handler in our server that just logged and kept going. We had a couple tables in our database trashed because of that and ended up having to restore from the nightly backup, losing everything that was changed that day.