Well, as a programmer I like exceptions too as error handling becomes a breeze.

But as a user I hate them and the reason a simple: Because the developer doesn't have to handle every case, many developers just don't know what types of errors/exceptions can happen at runtime and unless they catch all Exceptions at the top-level, their programs will crash every once in a while.

Yes, it is a bit unfair to judge a feature like exceptions by the resulting code quality, as you certainly can use them responsibly, but my personal impression is that exceptions mislead developers to writes code of lower quality (myself included). That is why I like the Go approach to (some extent).