The problem of java's checked exceptions is not that being explicit is bad, it's that java's implementation is terrible.
Because before anyhow/thiserror became popular there were 5 other popular crates for handling errors and if Rust added one of those to std we would be stuck with a subpar solution forever?
Because cargo is so easy to use that your preferred error handling solution is one `cargo add` command away?
Because for simple cases the tools the standard library offers are good enough?
The methods like .map .map_err .and_then I feel are way easier to reason about and also often shorter that what would happen in a control flow breaking catch block.