It's kind of OK to use, as long as you don't call it all over the place and render your code untestable such that it can't be mocked out, but I'm not a huge fan

It's kind of OK to use, as long as you don't call it all over the place and render your code untestable such that it can't be mocked out, but I'm not a huge fan of it. It's really a matter of opinion at that point.