I like Go, but after writing/reading so much Go code, I get nightmares from `if err != nil` demons punching me in the face. There were so many nice suggestions made to fix this, but there are some extremely conservative and extremely loud-spoken community members who killed all the proposals with vitriolic feedback. Now, the Go team has given up the battle for improving error handling since they are psychologically afraid of these folks.

Every Go developer survey has results where the community overwhelmingly votes to improve error handling, but a few extremists have derailed all progress.