In other languages like Java this can work because of checked exceptions (can work, I know there are a lot of mediocre devs who don't know what to do with check

In other languages like Java this can work because of checked exceptions (can work, I know there are a lot of mediocre devs who don't know what to do with checked exceptions but that's another issue). But in JS this is a terrible way to deal with any problem that can be handled.