Everything Google Analytics does is expendable, so the block of code that deals with it should be wrapped in try/catch.

> There's a big difference between "resilient against a missing dependency" and "being resilient in the face of getting literally any object instead of the dependency you expected to get."

If Google pushes a breaking change to the Google Analytics API tomorrow, that shouldn't break checkout either.

For third party dependencies that might not get loaded for whatever reason? Yes, sure. There are better ways to do it, but that's the idea.