I think you missed the point of the article. In fact, the article specifically covers catching panics, so it doesn't bring down the entire application. As well as covering when panic is okay. It doesn't say you should just unwrap everything and treat panic as error handling.

And how do you propose they do that? What you're saying is tautological. It's like saying, "I don't want browsers to use runtime invariants because they can be broken and thus causing my browser to terminate."

Like... yeah, cool. How do you do that exactly?

Also, please do consider reading the blog post I wrote. I wrote it to try to clarify a lot of confusing around this topic. It is nuanced, and it just can't be untangled in a few sentences in a HN comment.