When LR cannot read a photo, LR should state why

The Warning dialog has a generic message but no explanation of why LR was unable to read the photo: "Lightroom has encountered problems reading this photo. You will not be able to make adjustments to the photo." This is not helpful, LR needs to state why.
E.g. last time, I noticed they were two photos in Lab Color Mode, so I figured out LR cannot read files in Lab Color Mode; the Warning message should state it.

This is pervasive in "modern" software: software detects a problem (and almost always knows what problem it has encountered), stops the process and tells you it stopped. But programmers are lazy beasts and it seems that it has become much too much effort for them to generate an error message with some meaning and possible circumventions, etc. There is software that will facilitate this process but it is just too demeaning ... especially since programmers are supposed to write good code and reporting errors reflects poorly, eh? Having been a mainframe assembler programmer for fifteen years I know it used to be unacceptable to detect an error and not report what the error was. But since the rise of Microsoft it appears that the convenience of the programmers has way surpassed the needs of the customers and Adobe is leaning this way. They use this same "technique" when they can't export an image ... "We didn't export it ... you try to guess why not!"

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