Ah, I misunderstood your example in that case. I was thinking more about solving it at the source vs essentially just catching the error case and overwriting t

Ah, I misunderstood your example in that case. I was thinking more about solving it at the source vs essentially just catching the error case and overwriting the behavior. And while the latter is definitely "code smell"/technical debt... Sometimes, there aren't really any good solutions to a given problem