The appeal of exceptions, to me, has always been that they allow you to largely separate your error handling from your procedural logic since the catch block can usually go at the end of the method/function and can usually be written later. This means you can write and test code and then come back and handle error conditions after you've gotten the success path working. Option/Result force you to at least acknowledge the possibility of an error at the point when you're writing your logic. Whether that's ?/try!, .unwrap(), a match or writing in a more functional manner, error handling can't literally be an afterthought the way it is with unchecked exceptions.

I'm not arguing that this is a bad thing, and it may be a push in the right direction for many programmers. But it's still a push and many don't enjoy being pushed.