The `change` node..... Checking what I expect to what it does

[cymplecy]

I can understand why it looks wrong at first glance

But at present time, we can move the payload to a sub-property and the change node does it.

So I think the behaviour of ignoring non object type and just doing it is already in use.

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@zenofmud has found previous reference

How to send a picture through Telegram?

to be fair - that is indeed (yet another) a subtlety of javascript. If the object is an object it's easy to add/edit/remove properties. If it's a type like a number or string (or boolean) then that can't be assigned extra properties so trying to add them will fail.