From FME 2017 there's a neat error trap that means you don't trip over the 'rejected features' issue when writing to the Shape format quite so much. If you add a CSV reader and a Shape Writer to the canvas, the semantic capability of FME kicks in and drops a GeometryFilter on the canvas to route the null geometry records straight to a FeatureType with the shape_null geometry setting. You also get a FeatureType for points. Since the first thing you often do in this scenario is make points this means that you don't end up with lots of points being sent to a Feature Type with the wrong geometry type set. BUT, whilst this is 99% better than previously, the Null port of the GeometryFilter is auto connected to a FeatureType that gets named ' CSV_geom'. This confused a number of training delegates recently who argued that this should be called 'CSV_null' instead.
A very small change needed really.
