Way too many developers are lazy and haven't actually studied the language they're using to adapt their code. So instead you get discussions where the tools ar

Way too many developers are lazy and haven't actually studied the language they're using to adapt their code. So instead you get discussions where the tools are blamed. Obviously there are a lot of lazy/bad developers and the larger the company/team the more likely you have some of them. The irony is when this comes up in discussions about places like Google and Facebook that have built up a cult of believing they are better than everyone else while seemingly having lots of trouble dealing with these kinds of issues. I don't hate Optional, but what I find is the same people who can't handle using null also fall into the Optional anti-patterns.