That's definitely true, and what I started out by doing. However, I encountered: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/pull/601/files#diff-b3da0947aa319bd56c75737f039f143dR549 which would actually end up being nil if weak, and so I'm not sure why this is an IBOutlet in the first place, and then at that point I figured I should commit this for now, then do much more cleanup in another commit for another issue, for many more files :)