An old C/C++ argument lol. The C people want their exit blocks, the C++ people want to write destructors.

As a C++ guy I'm on the early-return side of things, because it communicates quickly which fallible operations (don't) have fallbacks.

You see "return" you know there is no "else".

Also, as a code-formatting bonus, you can chain a bunch of fallible operations without indenting the code halfway across your monitor.