The messages are sometimes logged and sometimes shown to the user,
- for logging we might not want to truncate or have higher limits,
- but when shown to the user, we definitely want to truncate the error text.
It is simplest to just do the truncation here, at the lowest level.
Note that we usually prepend the error text with a header e.g. "[DO NOT TRUST THIS MESSAGE]"
and if the error text is too long, this header at the beginning might get "lost" in some way.
Hence we should truncate the error text.
