Raising instances of Exception and BaseException will have a negative impact on any code trying
to catch these exceptions.
From a consumer perspective, it is generally a best practice to only catch exceptions you intend to handle. Other exceptions should ideally not be
caught and let to propagate up the stack trace so that they can be dealt with appropriately. When a generic exception is thrown, it forces consumers
to catch exceptions they do not intend to handle, which they then have to re-raise.
Besides, when working with a generic type of exception, the only way to distinguish between multiple exceptions is to check their message, which is
error-prone and difficult to maintain. Legitimate exceptions may be unintentionally silenced and errors may be hidden.
For instance, if an exception such as SystemExit is caught and not re-raised, it will prevent the program from stopping.
When raising an exception, it is therefore recommended to raising the most specific exception possible so that it can be handled intentionally by
consumers.
