I'm reviewing a codebase with over 750 uses of optional chaining.

Example:
user?.email

I continue to believe adding this feature to JS was a mistake.

It encourages lazy, sloppy, brittle, ambiguous code.

Solution: Ban it.

Use ESLint to forbid usage, and suggest validating data via tools like Zod to narrow the type before usage instead.

Here's how:

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