Presumably people will only use it in situations where null (or undefined, or however it works) is a valid and expected value for a particular property.

In TypeScript, these properties would explicitly have a `MyType|null` or `MyType|undefined` type.

Roughly speaking, one less place where we need to use lodash.

"or will it just obfuscate bugs in the long run?"

Probably. :shrug emojii:

But more stable in the sense of turning hard crashes into UI quirks.