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…It wasn’t initialized because they weren’t thinking about the lifecycle of that object because they weren’t thinking about when things happen in the UI because they weren’t thinking about the sequence of the user’s interaction with the system because they weren’t thinking about how the software would actually get used or about what they actually •wanted• it to do when it worked.

The technical problem was really a design / lack of clarity problem. This happens •constantly• when writing code.