Is `try` really needed? (opens in new tab)

I recently followed the write a terminal editor tutorial from here: in zig 0.16.0 and since there is a lot of writing, which can fail, to stdout() there are A LOT of try keywords in my code (Flashback to .unwrap() and .expect("..") in my rust code). And it got me thinking why exactly do we need try? We need to deal with the errors anyway why not just automatically raise the error if one occurs (which in reality is what you do in most cases) and have just code like catch for when we deal with ...