See #26078 (review) for context.

After that, I looked up if we already have similar ineffective tests in our codebase, and I think that I found at least one.

E.g. using grep -r ' catch' test/ -A 2 | grep strictEqual, this one popped up half through the list:

The code above doesn't test that the error is thrown (as it likely should), instead it tests that another error doesn't get thrown.

Note that there are a lot of false positives in the said grep (actually most matches are false positives), because e.g. this is perfectly fine: