Challenge 2: Why Step 4's Profiler Check Is Still Worth Doing — Solution Walkthrough Why performing Step 4 anyway is still good practice: Per Chapter 5's own warning box, a symptom can look like it has an obvious cause while a genuinely different resource is still contributing, or while the "obvious" cause turns out to be incomplete. Finding the null-check bug in Step 3 explains why the button appears to do nothing — but it doesn't, on its own, rule out that a slow network call or a resource issue might ALSO be present, or that the same symptom could partly stem from more than one cause at once. What skipping Step 4 risks specifically: If a performance-related contributing factor existed alongside the logic bug, fixing only the null-check issue might leave the bug report only partially resolved — the button would no longer silently do nothing, but users might still experience an unexpected delay or slowdown from an unrelated performance issue nobody checked for, since the investigation stopped as soon as one plausible cause was found. Why this reflects real investigative discipline: Confirming there's no additional contributing factor, even after finding a clear and sufficient explanation, is a genuinely different habit from stopping investigation the moment any plausible cause appears — the first explanation found isn't always the complete explanation, and a quick additional check is cheap insurance against that. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This exercise applies Chapter 5's own "don't assume, check broadly" caution to a realistic temptation — stopping an investigation as soon as any plausible cause is found — correctly explaining why one more confirming check is worth the small extra effort.