It’s often just the boilerplate. As a Java dev people often end up ignoring it and changing everything to “throws Exception” to avoid having to list 4 exception

It’s often just the boilerplate. As a Java dev people often end up ignoring it and changing everything to “throws Exception” to avoid having to list 4 exception types all over a call stack. Or they catch and wrap everything in some CustomSysException type so they only have to list one type and it’s not Exception, but then that’s really the same thing isn’t it? I think it’s kind of a combination of not dealing with things and throwing them up the stack combined with too many exception types and maybe using exceptions when a result type would just be easier.