As someone that also likes them, I would point out that actually Java design team took their inspiration from CLU, Modula-3 and C++ regarding checked exceptions.
Im only familiar with Java and python, do CLU or Modula-3 do much differently? I heard C++ engineers generally hate exceptions, partially because they're unchecked.
The point being that CLU, Modula-3 and C++ had checked exceptions before Java was even a thing.
CLU never went beyond university projects, and Modula-3 research died after the labs went through several acquisitions, DEC => Compaq => HP.
As for C++, checked exceptions never gained much support, because their semantics are different from what Java adopted. Throwing an exception that isn't part of the list terminates the application and there were some other issues with them, so now as of C++17 they have been dropped from the standard after being deprecated in the previous ones.
In general there are two big communities in C++, the ones that turn everything on (RTTI, exceptions, STL, Boost...) and those that rather use C but get to use a C++ compiler instead.
So no we don't hate exceptions, it just depends on which side of the fence one is.
