Our code is more robust and legible. But we hide NULL under the rug

TL;DR: Avoid Nulls and undefined. If you avoid them you will never need Optionals.

Problems

• Nulls

• IF Polluting

Solutions

1. Remove nulls

2. Deal with undefined

Context

Optional Chaining, Optionals, Coalescence, and many other solutions help us deal with the infamous nulls.

There's no need to use them once our code is mature, robust, and without nulls.

Sample Code

Wrong

const user = {
  name: 'Hacker'
};

if (user?.credentials?.notExpired) {
  user.login();
}

user.functionDefinedOrNot?.();

// Seems compact but it is hacky and has lots
// of potential NULLs and Undefined

Right

function login() {}

const user = {
  name: 'Hacker',
  credentials: