Pretty much this, yes.
If you hit an error condition in your code that you aren't explicitly handling, break that mofo.
The faster and more explicitly you break, the better, as this gives you the signal to fix the problem.
Wrapping and retries attempts to heal the damage, meaning, effectively, your code is walking wounded -- it's encountered an untrapped error, has ignored it, and is attempting to continue.
The faster and more definitively an error breaks, the better the likelihood of fixing it, and the more obvious the error and fix are.
