I'll let you in on my cynical take. Warning: it's both cynical and a bit condescending.
The truth is that programmers are just as susceptible to fads, cargo cults, and appeals to authority as anyone else. Around the same time that everyone decided that checked exceptions were horrible, programmers were also deciding that they didn't like static typing at all and a great many were jumping to Python and JavaScript for everything.
Now, the pendulum has swung the other way, and everyone likes static typing, and they'll even go so far as to proclaim their love for Rust's Result type, which is the same damn thing as checked exceptions in practice (with extremely similar pros and cons and ergonomics). But, they haven't yet gotten around to questioning their belief that checked exceptions are axiomatically bad, so you'll see people point out every minute, trivial, difference between Java's checked exceptions and Rust's Result type in an attempt to rationalize why they like one and not the other. Some will also claim that Rust doesn't have unchecked exceptions, just because you can set a compile-time option to abort on what Rust calls "panics".
The truth is that programmers are just as susceptible to fads, cargo cults, and appeals to authority as anyone else. Around the same time that everyone decided that checked exceptions were horrible, programmers were also deciding that they didn't like static typing at all and a great many were jumping to Python and JavaScript for everything.
Now, the pendulum has swung the other way, and everyone likes static typing, and they'll even go so far as to proclaim their love for Rust's Result type, which is the same damn thing as checked exceptions in practice (with extremely similar pros and cons and ergonomics). But, they haven't yet gotten around to questioning their belief that checked exceptions are axiomatically bad, so you'll see people point out every minute, trivial, difference between Java's checked exceptions and Rust's Result type in an attempt to rationalize why they like one and not the other. Some will also claim that Rust doesn't have unchecked exceptions, just because you can set a compile-time option to abort on what Rust calls "panics".