Why is so much effort devoted to covering the case where a default locale is not set?

[gopz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm just curious why so much of the html is devoted to covering the case where there's no default locale set. Just force people to set a default locale? I'm not too familiar with this sort of thing but it seems a little cumbersome to change the code in two places just so that it won't fail if there's not default locale.

Describe the solution you'd like

Delete all the if/thens dealing with no default locale ({% if site.locale and site.locale != "" and site.locale != nil %})

Describe alternatives you've considered

Leaving it the way it is, it's not hurting much