Yes, every process a person/language/company/country/etc.. adopts has a cost. It's not free. The question is if being forced to always deal with errors is worth

Yes, every process a person/language/company/country/etc.. adopts has a cost. It's not free. The question is if being forced to always deal with errors is worth the cost of always dealing with errors. I think it is. I will gladly trade a couple of hours of extra error handling code every week in exchange for no pager duty alarms on the weekend.