Okay so that was my concern, if I do just

class MyClass(context : Context) {
    var context = context.applicationContext

then whenever I use

context

and command click on it, the IDE takes me to the one referenced in the constructor instead of the field. Is that incorrect and the constructor's context reference isn't held onto?

Really? If you use it in a function Idea thinks it references the constructor one?

Yeah it did for me