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I think that the problems with unchecked exceptions are due to the simultaneous presence of both checked and unchecked exceptions. The designers must have thought that checked exceptions would be the rule, but left an escape hatch.

If there were no checked exceptions to begin with, people might have thought about making the Java compiler (and later language server) infer all possible exception types in a method for us (as effect systems do). One could then have static analysis tools checking that only certain exception types escape a method, giving back checked exceptions without the type and syntax level bifurcation.

On the other hand, if all exceptions were checked, they would inevitably have had to implement generic checked exception types, ironically leading to the same outcome.