Optional has more syntactic sugar for more complex scenarios / functional call chaining that prevents repetitive if checks

Optional.ofNullable(myObj)
  .map(MyClass::getProperty)
  .map(MyOtherClass::getAnotherProperty)
  .filter(obj -> somePredicate(obj))
  .orElse(null)

This is completely null safe, the function calls are only made if the object is not null