Giving special treatment to code that "explicitly wants" to handle unwinding means two things:

* You have to know when an API can unwind, and you have to make it an error to unwind when the caller isn't expecting it. If this is done statically, you are getting into effect annotation territory. If this is done dynamically, are essentially just injecting drop bombs into code that doesn't expect unwinding. Either way, you are multiplying complexity for generic code. (Not to mention you have to invent a whole new set of idioms for panic-free code.)

* You still have to be able to clean up the resources held by a caller that does expect unwinding. So all your vocabulary/glue/library code (the stuff that can't just assume panic=abort) still needs these "scoped panic hooks" in all the same places it has any level of panic awareness in Drop today.

So for anyone to actually benefit from this, they have to be writing panic-free code with whatever new static or dynamic tools come with this, and they have to be narrowly scoped and purpose-specific enough that they could essentially already today afford panic=abort. Who is this even for?

To be very explicit about something: these are all vague design handwaves, and until they become not only concrete but sufficiently clear to handle use cases people have, they're not going to go anywhere. They're vague ideas we're thinking about. Right now, panic unwind isn't going anywhere.