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IDK how idiomatic it still is, but I was taught to differentiate between Exceptions and Errors, where any recoverable Exception is to be logged and handled gracefully and only the truly unforeseen or fatal issues end up actually killing the execution.
And for unforeseen errors, it's kinda hard to construct a helpful error message, given you might not know just what info to include.
(Of course, proprietary obfuscation adds another significant hurdle, but I suspect even without obfuscation, you might not be able to do much about closed-source code. That's an argument against closed-source code, in my opinion, but I don't think I need to preach to the choir here.)