quarkus21 create --registry-client -S 2.43 --dry-run test27899rr4j fails with non informative error

[maxandersen]

Describe the bug

with no registries configured and asking for nonexistent stream I get this:

quarkus21 create --registry-client -S 2.43 --dry-run test27899rr4j
Creating an app (default project type, see --help).
Refreshing the local extension catalog cache of registry.quarkus.io
Downloading from registry.quarkus.io: https://registry.quarkus.io/maven/io/quarkus/registry/quarkus-registry-descriptor/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded from registry.quarkus.io: https://registry.quarkus.io/maven/io/quarkus/registry/quarkus-registry-descriptor/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (736 B at 650 B/s)
Downloading from registry.quarkus.io: https://registry.quarkus.io/maven/io/quarkus/registry/quarkus-platforms/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded from registry.quarkus.io: https://registry.quarkus.io/maven/io/quarkus/registry/quarkus-platforms/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (726 B at 3.6 kB/s)
[ERROR] ❗  Unable to create project: Failed to resolve the Quarkus extension catalog

i would have expected a message saying something like:

"Stream io.quarkus.platform:2.43 not found. Try one of these:

• io.quarkus.platform:2.0
• io.quarkus.platform:2.1
  "

assuming 2.0 and 2.1 are present

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[quarkus-bot]

/cc @ebullient, @gsmet

[ebullient]

@aloubyansky .. the PR I have will nip this one, too