Fatal Error: Call to a member function setDisplayOptions() on null

Problem/Motivation

Installing this module (with the recommended patch) unfortunately broke my Drupal, and I wasn't able to remove module using drush due to the fatal error.

I don't fully understand the workings of the Base Fields or the setDisplayOptions() function, enough to know if the action I took was justified for any other reason but removing the the block responsible for the crash at least let me gain control of my site again and remove the module!

Steps to reproduce

1. Install with Drupal 10.3.x and the patch from https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2880154 📌 Convert comments to be revisionable Needs work
2. Enable the module
3. Observe WSOD with the message:
Error: Call to a member function setDisplayOptions() on null in comment_revision_ui_entity_base_field_info_alter() (line 111 of modules\contrib\comment_revision_ui\comment_revision_ui.module).
Attempt to reverse course by uninstalling the module
4. Observe the same error coming from drush.

5. remove the following from /comment_revision_ui/comment_revision_ui.module

  // @todo Remove this once the override in Comment::baseFieldDefinitions() is removed.
  $fields['revision_log_message']->setDisplayOptions('form', [
    'type' => 'string_textarea',
    'weight' => 25,
    'settings' => [
      'rows' => 4,
    ],
  ]);

6. Functioning of the site resumes
7. Now uninstall the module safely

Proposed resolution

- Make a clear warning this could happen on the module page
- Assess if the module is still viable
- If so make the necessary changes to...
- - Prevent WSOD, as in my case
- - Allow a path for uninstalling the module if mistakes are made.
- - Get the module working again (if it is still relevant/needed)

Remaining tasks

- Decide on what to do with the module
- Make changes
- Review changes
- Do whatever has been decided