I find it odd to see a reply written as if I haven't written in a transactional style and seen it working well. But ignoring that for a second. Your blog post says the error handlers did the wrong thing 5% of the time. Can I read from that they did the right thing 95% of the time? And you will dismiss the technique for that?

Not to mention that there are coding styles that make the transactional approach less difficult. (OK, so reverting your work gets hairy in the presence of certain side effects. In many cases I would rather chose some behavior and stick with it than take down an entire process dereferencing a null pointer.)