The payoff is the same: you do more work up front, but have fewer weird, hard-to-track-down bugs later. Even rust's "?" operator nudges you towards "just pass

The payoff is the same: you do more work up front, but have fewer weird, hard-to-track-down bugs later. Even rust's "?" operator nudges you towards "just pass the error on up", rather than actually thinking about what you want to do if an error happens each time.