Proper way to "intercept" reverts

[svax974]

Hello, I don't know where to ask so I'll try here.

I'm using web3 v1.10.
I will try to port my stuff to v4 as soon as I can but in the meantime, I'm having a problem with some of my transactions.

I have some cases where I require() stuff thus reverting the transaction.
Metamask used to give me a revert error quite quickly (I don't remember if I was using ethers at that time) but now all I get is a Metamask message that tells me gas fees can't be estimated and showing very high fees.
I already got that message and it was usually caused by a bug in my contract but here it doesn't seems to be the case and seems to be only caused by the require being not met.
How could I intercept the revert error instead of that fees estimation problem ?
Is that web3 or Metamask related ? I don't even know.

Any help is appreciated, thanks !