I’m not talking about exceptions in theory, which you are completely right about...

I’m not talking about exceptions in theory, which you are completely right about. I’m talking about how exceptions are actually used in practice. You can claim “they should do it differently” but I think you would be ignoring that the design of exceptions is the reason they are not handled/networked/etc. I could go into more detail about your points and it might be interesting, but I am drunk.

EDIT: re the noise point, I’m talking about the actual exception when it is read by a developer in a debugging context, not the lines of code dedicated to processing it.