How important are nested WaitForChild() functions

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When making scripts with multiple nested objects how important is it to use the WaitForChild() function on each object?

For example, this is a line from one of my scripts

game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent.GetBoatInv.OnServerInvoke = ...

I am using remote events like this in many places along with nesting in GUIs that is similar.

Do I need to go through and change all of these to something like this?

game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteEvent"):WaitForChild("GetBoatInv").OnServerInvoke = ...

Is there a simpler way to do this, or is it not needed?

Thanks in advance!

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You use :WaitForChild() on anything that you didn’t physically put in studio. That would be Humanoids (you dont need to wait for player.character because it is not a child), instance.new things, something that changes parents, etc.