I'm not even sure why we are still stuck in this debate. Isn't there quite a big consensus that the best way to handle errors is to have everything return an `E

I'm not even sure why we are still stuck in this debate. Isn't there quite a big consensus that the best way to handle errors is to have everything return an `Either<T, Error>` and having first-class support for monadic types? Any design that doesn't actually force you to handle the error case cannot be called good in my opinion.