Actually fascinating. That means you can null out a late init property from java

yep, or through reflection

if you use reflection you know you are fishing in dangerous waters

well it has

@NonNull

on it…

Looks like a bug to me

Well. Technically, it's

null

until assigned. If you null it out, then you get uninitialized exception. Looks okay to me

No, that's the point. It's a field, not an accessor