I’m not misunderstanding. You weren’t making a point about _verbosity_ originally. You were talking about distinguishing errors you care about; which is perfectly possible, you don’t use the construct that says “I don’t care what error it is”.

I did ask "Or rather, how do you do this without returning to the un-ergonomic try-catch?" but I don't want to die on this hill. Can I just assume then that this distinction isn't possible in Swift without returning to try-catch blocks?