Cannot read properties of null (reading 'hits')

### 🐛 Current behavior

We see that on Sentry we get a lot of the error "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'hits')".


It's hard to investigate for us as the stack trace leads us from `../../../../node_modules/instantsearch.js/es/connectors/autocomplete/connectAutocomplete.js in indices at line 63:84` to `../../../../node_modules/instantsearch.js/es/lib/utils/defer.js in progress at line 18:16`.

Our dependencies are:

```
"dependencies": {
"algoliasearch": "^4.22.1",
"react-instantsearch": "^7.5.5",
"react-instantsearch-nextjs": "0.2.4",
"search-insights": "^2.13.0"
},
```

This project is not using nextjs, but we are in a monorepo and so are sharing some packages. We are just importing from `react-instantsearch` for things like `useInfiniteHits`, `useHits`, `useRefinementList`, the `Configure` component.

We have about 26 files using react-instantsearch so I'm happy to share some code examples although it's hard for us to know _which_ part is causing the issue. So I wanted to open this issue incase it is a library bug. Happy to try and work through to understand if it's userland or not.

### 🔍 Steps to reproduce

1. Use react-instantsearch
2. See this error reported in Sentry

### Live reproduction

n/a

### 💭 Expected behavior

No error is thrown

### Package version

react-instantsearch@7.5.5

### Operating system

_No response_

### Browser

_No response_

### Code of Conduct

- [X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

Start by tracing the reported stack entries in instantsearch.js/es/connectors/autocomplete/connectAutocomplete.js and instantsearch.js/es/lib/utils/defer.js. Reproduce the null `hits` error with react-instantsearch@7.5.5; done means identifying whether the cause is in the library or userland and documenting a reliable reproduction or resolution.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.