Checked exceptions were universally rejected not because they are intrinsically bad but because the language support was awful (e.g. could not wrap or abstract over a nested object possibly rethrowing), they were sitting right next to unchecked exception with limited clarity, guidance and coherence as to which was which, and they are so god damn ungodly verbose, both to (re)throw and to convert.

Results are so much more convenient it's not even funny, but even without that you could probably build a language with checked exceptions where they're not infuriatingly bad (Swift has something along those lines, though IIRC it doesn't statically check all the error types potentially bubbling up so you know that you have to catch something, not necessarily what).