[kevingadd]

As it happens, Unity has its own version of this problem, where it pretends that a non-null dangling reference is a null-reference: https://jacx.net/2015/11/20/dont-use-equals-null-on-unity-ob...

[jay_kyburz]

That is not the same at all. The equivalent would be that your reference is pointing to some other object in the scene.