Not sure what you mean by that. If you're consuming the API of a crate that has functions that return errors, you're not really dealing with a "framework", you're just dealing with whatever the `E` is in the `Result<T, E>`. If that `E` doesn't implement std::error::Error, I'd consider that a deficiency (even a bug) for that crate. (Yes, I know some crates want to support use in `no_std` environments; that's what features are for.)

If I care about the specific variants of error that a function can return, so I can do different things depending on what kind of error occurred, I'll read the docs and match. That's not really a "framework" thing; that's just a basic thing that anyone has to do in any language in order to consume an API. If I need to propagate the error, I'll do so (either directly, or by wrapping it in a variant of my own error type). I don't see how any of this is "framework"-y.

A crate's decision to use thiserror (or not) does not matter to me. If a crate exposes `anyhow::Error`, that's a lazy choice and bad API design, but still "works" and I generally don't need to care about it.

Or is there something else you meant when you said "error frameworks"?

I guess you might have to if you need to use a library someone's written that doesn't implement the standard.

Writing primarily applications, I couldn't tell you what error handling frameworks my dependencies are using: I literally don't know, and haven't needed to know in order to display, fail, or succeed.

EDIT to add: I use anyhow for this, so I should also add "add context to an error when I fall" to the list of things I do.