My worry in that case though is you could end up with a whole heap of unnecessary abstractions which can make reading by a third party (or yourself even in 6 mo

My worry in that case though is you could end up with a whole heap of unnecessary abstractions which can make reading by a third party (or yourself even in 6 months) a little more tricky. I'm seen so many functions of the like of `Util.checkNull(String str)` where simply `str == null || str.empty()` would have done.