Not sure what you mean about LoadQueryInfluencer#setGraph(null) not ever being effective. LoadQueryInfluencer#setGraph(null) was not called before, which is my point.

As for #internalLoad called during or after #find... it seemed to happen both ways in my testing and I was never able to determine the distinction. And honestly the reason is not relevant as allowing for "get attribute or null by name" semantics on our ManagedType descriptor is a simple solution mimicking what happened pre-5.4 (though still with the perf improvement)