This is not a bug, it's a feature. You have the ability to handle errors at defined points. As reality is such that errors can happen at any of these points, be

This is not a bug, it's a feature. You have the ability to handle errors at defined points. As reality is such that errors can happen at any of these points, being able to gracefully handle them is as good as it gets. If you want to compose error handling along the type-of-error axis or the await-point-axis, the language already provides tools for you to do so. Again, not being able to blatantly ignore these errors is a feature, not a bug. In NodeJS/Browser environments, you have the exact same behavior where promises you are awaiting can get rejected.