> This is simply not my experience with exceptions. Exceptions are frequently thrown and almost never need to be caught, and the result is easy to reason about.

I write GUI apps and that is also how I use exceptions - and it works just fine. If you have an exception, the only rational thing to do most of the time is to let it bubble up to the top of the event loop show a warning to the end user or cleanly quit the program while making a backup of the work somewhere else.