All of these problems seem trivial to me. The problem with Optional is that it isn't baked into the API, nor can it ever be, so any use of Optional is after the

All of these problems seem trivial to me. The problem with Optional is that it isn't baked into the API, nor can it ever be, so any use of Optional is after the fact, applied only by the application, which means you need to wrap api calls in Optionals manually, which is something that gets real old, real quick.