[tialaramex]

The nature of expect is that this is a bug. The person who wrote this code was wrong, they expected that this optional has Some value but it does not.

In most cases then, if you don't know this code very well, that's fine because it's not your bug. In the edge case that you just got handed a pile of poorly documented code somebody else wrote, perhaps over several years, well, at least you know what they thought is supposed to happen here and that they're wrong.

And no, I don't find it better to be told "It broke, break out a debugger and try to reproduce the fault". With this text we can revisit the Goose wrangling code and maybe, now that we're staring at it knowing a real customer saw this fault, we are inspired and realise that sometimes it won't find a Goose, then decide what to do about that.