[alkonaut]

Not all gotos are made equal. A hundred gotos jumping forward to the same cleanup/error tail is very readable and actually reduces complexity over alternatives - which it’s obviously why it’s used. In many languages this type of construct has the form of try/catch/finally but those are glorified forward gotos.

Seeing even one goto jumping backward would be much more surprising, and seeing what made gotos get their bad rep, overlapping goto regions, would be completely shocking in any quality code base.