Again, I'm not arguing that operator* should check for nullness, I'm arguing that it shouldn't exist. With `kj::Maybe` and `KJ_IF_MAYBE`, using the syntax I de

Again, I'm not arguing that operator* should check for nullness, I'm arguing that it shouldn't exist. With `kj::Maybe` and `KJ_IF_MAYBE`, using the syntax I demonstrated above, you check for nullness once and as a result of the check you get a direct pointer to the underlying value (if it is non-null), which you then use for subsequent access, so you don't end up repeating the check. So, you get the best of both worlds. > it's likely ~30 loc to wrap std::optional It's even easier to replace std::optional rather than wrap it. The value of std::optional is that it's a standard that one would hope would be used across libraries. But because it's flawed, people like me end up writing their own instead.