I really don’t see how guard syntax better in this...

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[gildor]

I really don’t see how guard syntax better in this case.
Yes, smart cast doesn’t work for all the cases, in this case you just can use this:

val unwrapped = foo?.something
if (unwrapped != null) {
  unwrapped.soSomething()
} else {
   otherStuff()
}

But you need this only when smartcast doesn’t work for you
Also you can do something like this:

val unwrapped = foo?.something ?: return otherStuff()
// or just
val unwrapped = foo?.something ?: return
// or throw error
val unwrapped = foo?.something ?: error("foo is null")
// and now you can  use unwrapped as non-null
unwrapped.soSomething()