Motivation:
Components in a composite buffer can "go missing" if the composite is a slice of another composite and the parent has changed its layout.
Modification:
Where we would previously have thrown a NullPointerException, we now have a null-check for the component, and we instead throw an IllegalStateException with a more descriptive message.
Result:
It's now a bit easier to understand what is going on in these situations.
Fixes#10908
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