It's a small thing, but between this and the properties syntax sugar (avoiding having to hand-write all the SetX GetX methods that litter Java code), it adds up

It's a small thing, but between this and the properties syntax sugar (avoiding having to hand-write all the SetX GetX methods that litter Java code), it adds up for cruddy stuff where you end up needing to define a bunch of POCOs, for instance with EF or JSON REST APIs.