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Not really. Handler and middleware can handle this without much ceremony. The user gets to, and is informed of and encouraged to, choose.

We also don't get surprised at runtime. It's in the AST and we know at compile time.

The right API signature helps the engineer think about things and puts them in the correct headspace for systems thinking. If something is panicking under the hood, the thought probably doesn't even occur to them.

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Yes, but my point is that without a reasonable supervision tree and crash boundary the difference between a composition of Result-returning functions that bottoms out in main's implicit panic and an explicit panic is nil operationally.

While lexically the unwrap actually puts the unhandledness of the error case as close to the source of the issue's source as possible. In order to get that lexical goodness you'd need something much more fine grained than Result.

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