That's the point though. I can easily do a null check to handle whether or not to process/use the value. For instance, if I'm fetching some data I usually want

That's the point though. I can easily do a null check to handle whether or not to process/use the value. For instance, if I'm fetching some data I usually want to initialize the data variable as null for a couple of reasons. 1) null is not truthy, empty arrays and objects are 2) It shows that the variable is supposed to be filled, unlike undefined