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It might return to the main loop if you throw a NoPrintingOnXboxException… if and only if the author of the app has decided to catch a broad enough exception in that exact place in the code, and handles it gracefully. Good practice to always handle any exception that might be thrown, but it’s not always obvious in the past where there might be a chance for an exception to be thrown. For instance, the printing subsystem itself can’t be missing, can it??

So anyway, the platform vendor can’t be sure the above situation is perfectly handled by every app, so the entire point of the article is “given you must technically comply with the published API specifications, how can you construct the least harmful and least disruptive response to every request sent to this fully-removed system component.”

This whole exercise is basically constructed in order to usually guarantee the outcome you’re suggesting: to cause the app to just return to its normal functioning without doing the impossible thing.