>AFAIK its use would have been optional, so no-one was being forced to use it. It seems to me at least some people thought it would be worthwhile. Are you saying it was completely redundant and/or useless?

I am saying I didn't like it in VFP and C#, and glad it didn't get into Go as well.

Some might like it but then it would prevent the search for a better error handling investigation. On that issue page, there were already many good and solid points why it shouldn't get into the language.