Agreed. Example from Scala

  // Given an Option
  val maybeThing: Option[String] = getThing()  

  // Classic
  if (maybeThing.isDefined) {
    useThing(maybeThing.get)
  } else {
    NotFoundResponseEtc()
  }  

  // Pattern matching (not too IDE auto generated exhaustive match cases!)
  maybeThing match {
    case Some(thing) => useThing(thing)
    case None        => NotFoundResponseEtc()
  }

This scales well when matching a higher cardinality of things like a variety of Exceptions or enums or other tuple responses like Either etc.