[TECH DEBT] Clean up bare/broad exception handling

[dwoz]

Description of the tech debt to be addressed, include links and screenshots

Clean up exception handling of bare exceptions and/or overly broad exceptions..

Things like this:

try:
   ...
except Exception:
   pass

Should be excepting a specific exception if we know what we are trying to handle. Otherwise we should at least be logging what went wrong so we can more easily narrow down the scope of the exception in the future.

try:
   ...
except Exception as exc:
   log.error(
       "Something went wrong: %s",
        exc, exc_info_on_loglevel=logging.DEBUG,
    )