Update sense parameter handling and initialisation #2086

Job	Run time
Shellcheck	58s
Prepare	43s
Dependency	5s
Ruff check and force	6s
Check commit	27s
Run pytest using Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}	-1s
Create pytest cache for Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}	-1s
Run mypy	0s
Process test coverage	0s
Process test complexity	0s
Build and publish Python 🐍 distributions 📦 to TestPyPI	0s
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