Automatically creating AppOption post doesn't work

[a-dg]

At the bottom of AppOption.php, we have this:

// Make sure a record exists
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'AppOption::createDefaultInstanceIfNecessary');

This is never fired, because the earliest hook available to themes is after_setup_theme. However, I question its usefulness. If we changed the hook to after_setup_theme, this method would be called on the front-end as well as in the admin, and it in turn calls getCount(). That seems a little wasteful in exchange for the convenience of automatically handling a critical piece of functionality being missing.

I would be in favor of removing this action and its method. Thoughts?