The unwrapping is implicit so you can pretend it's not there until you absolutely need it. To take a related example from c# (please excuse my pseudo c#, I'm rusty) you can use the operator ?. to say:

    return myList?.deleteFirst?.takeFirst?.name

you could also say:

    if (myList != null){
        firstDeleted = myList.deleteFirst;
        if (firstDeleted != null){
            newFirst = myList.takeFirst;
            if( newFirst != null){
                return  name;
            }  
        } 
    }

but I find the first one much easier to think about.