itlt gets blamed for other mod's crashes in certain situations

[PaintNinja]

Describe the bug
itlt gets blamed for other mod's crashes in the crash report when showing the Forge error screen.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install a mod that is marked as 1.18-only
2. Install itlt 1.18.x-2.1.0
3. The mod from step 1 will fail due to being declared as 1.18-only and Forge being 1.18.2
4. On showing the Forge error screen to notify the user of this in the GUI, itlt crashes as the Forge config system isn't activated in this state and returns null to itlt unexpectedly

Expected behavior
For the Forge error screen to be shown for the incompatible mod and the crash report to not mention itlt.

Environment details

• Operating system (e.g. Windows 10): Windows 11
• Java (e.g. AdoptOpenJDK 8 HotSpot): Microsoft OpenJDK 17.0.1 64-Bit
• Mod version (e.g. 1.16.5-2.0.0): 1.18.x-2.1.0
• Minecraft version (e.g. 1.16.5): 1.18.2

Logs and additional context
Looks like I'll need to put in some extra null checks and special handling in my usage of Forge's config system.

crash-2022-03-08_09.09.49-client.txt
crash-2022-03-08_09.09.49-fml.txt
latest.log