I'm not a huge fan of the 'factory' singleton pattern used here. I can see how explicit execution of the startup code is a good thing, but can't help thinking

I'm not a huge fan of the 'factory' singleton pattern used here. I can see how explicit execution of the startup code is a good thing, but can't help thinking how much better the experience would be if it just lazy-loaded the same code. Am I missing something obvious that would prevent this? Bad magic?