The Miniscript code contains assertions to prevent ending up in an insane state or prevent UB, but
also to enforce logical invariants. For the latter it is not necessary to crash the program if they
are broken. Raising an exception suffices, especially as this code is often called through the RPC
interface which can in turn handle the exception and the user can report it to developers.
This is based on previous work from Pieter Wuille.