It's a good point, and a good thought, but it doesn't help (much) unfortunately.
Whilst disabling the prototype allows me to pass an anonymous hash directly to share(), it still causes any contents in that hash to be discarded.
It does mean that you can share and assign an empty anonymous hash directly into the parent shared hash, which avoids the temp var at the slight inconvenience of obscurity, but it still doesn't make up for the lack autovivification :(
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