You are right, it's shoehorning. That's because data-hiding just isn't as much of a concern in ECS. In ECS the things you talk about are achieved differently.

You are right, it's shoehorning. That's because data-hiding just isn't as much of a concern in ECS. In ECS the things you talk about are achieved differently. In ECS, implementation details are local to the systems that process the relevant data. You don't store implementation details in the data you pass to the higher abstraction.