make_zero(!) bugfixes and improved tests

[danielwe]

Since #1852 isn't quite ready, in the meantime, here's a PR fixing the bugs I found in make_zero(!) and adding a fairly thorough test suite.

The last test currently fails due to #1935. I didn't want to mark it as broken because I'd rather see #1936 merged (or #1935 fixed in some other way), but let me know if I should change that.

[danielwe]

Thanks for taking a look! I noticed a few other issues that should be fixed too. However, #1852 is almost there (I've been in a cycle of thorough tests => noticing issues => fixing/improving design accordingly => repeat), so if you don't mind I'll finish the big push on that, and then we can decide whether it's worth fixing and merging this one first (say, if reviewing #1852 is too big of a task to deal with right now), or if we should close this one and focus on #1852

[vchuravy]

Can you rebase this? I think I would like to get this merged first before dealing with the much larger change in #1852

[danielwe]

Sure! Just give me a minute to incorporate some additional fixes and improvements I've made in the meantime

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