Comment by phillipcarter

Yep. This is similar to a viewpoint by Anders Hejlsberg and many on the C# team at the time: https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

> You see programmers picking up new APIs that have all these throws clauses, and then you see how convoluted their code gets, and you realize the checked exceptions aren't helping them any.

And he goes on to elaborate on how this gets more complicated when versioning is introduced into the mix.