How to safely use template structs?

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Okay on further inspection I don’t think the garbage collection should cause any issues directly

like what I’m doing right now (first case):

template <typename T>
struct FMyStruct {

   public:
    FMyStruct() {};
    FMyStruct(UMyObject* NewMyObj) { MyObj = NewMyObj; };
    void SetValue(T NewValue) {
        Value = NewValue;

        if (MyObj)
            MyObj->DoSomething();
    }
    T GetValue() const { return Value; }

   private:
    T Value;
    UMyObject* MyObj;
};


UCLASS()
class MYPROJECT_API AMyActor : public AActor
{
	GENERATED_BODY()
	
   public:	
	AMyActor(){
        SomeObj = CreateDefaultSubobject<UMyObject>(TEXT("SomeObj"));
        KeyA = FMyStruct<bool>(SomeObj);
        KeyB = FMyStruct<int>(SomeObj);
    };

	UPROPERTY()
	UMyObject * SomeObj;

	FMyStruct<bool> KeyA;
	FMyStruct<int> KeyB;
};

Is the same as (second case):

UCLASS()
class MYPROJECT_API AMyActor : public AActor
{
	GENERATED_BODY()
	
   public:	
	AMyActor(){
        SomeObj = CreateDefaultSubobject<UMyObject>(TEXT("SomeObj"));
    };

	UPROPERTY()
	UMyObject * SomeObj;

    UPROPERTY()
	bool KeyA;

    UPROPERTY()
	int KeyB;

    UFUNCTION()
    virtual void SetKeyA(bool NewKeyA){
        KeyA = NewKeyA;

        if(SomeObj)
            SomeObj->DoSomething()
    }

    UFUNCTION()
    virtual void SetKeyB(int NewKeyB){
        KeyB = NewKeyB;

        if(SomeObj)
            SomeObj->DoSomething()
    }
};

so even if in the first case SomeObj gets garbage collected it will have the same effect as the second case

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think since I’ll always be using FMyStruct in this manner garbage collection should not be a problem

But if it is, can you give me any example of where this might fail?