For the sake of IDE-friendliness, we are using backspace symbol \b in our stacktrace recovery machinery.

This trick is helpful to render a StackTraceElement as a raw string without line-numbers and parentheses that are obligatory for StackTraceElement.toString implementation.

While initially it was an acceptable solution, time moves on and debug mode is now frequently used in production environments, even by IntelliJ IDEA and its derivatives.
For that, \b solution is no longer desirable: it clutters log files, obfuscates programmatic exception handling and even triggers crashes of third-party tools that do not escape special symbols (that have to be escaped) in exception frames.

Solution

The solution is to get rid of \b, introduce properly documented artificial function to kotlinx.coroutines and make intermediate stackframe reference this function instead.
While it may be inconvenient for first-time users, it should be okay to once navigate to it in IDEA or to read its documentation to get used to it.

Known issues

Flank/flank#764
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-52026