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> handling errors sounds like work because it is.

Writing assembly instructions also sounds like work, and it is, but I'm glad my language/compiler does it for me ;)

Your compiler can't handle errors for you. Error propagation is not error handling.

Well, if(err != nil) return err; pretty much sounds like propagation to me ...

Yes, which is not error handling. Exceptions automatically handle error propagation, which is not the hard part of dealing with errors.