> If anyone didn't like "try", well, don't write your code that way.

I don't have a strong opinion on try, but this is not a good philosophy. Whatever you include in a language will get used and will get abused if it can be abused.

This is mostly why there is a part of Golang users who do not want generics. Look at codebases in C++ and you can see the clarity cost of adding generics in a codebase.