> It's hidden from the perspective of code represented as individual byte stream files, but that doesn't need to be the only representation This is unarguably

> It's hidden from the perspective of code represented as individual byte stream files, but that doesn't need to be the only representation This is unarguably true. However, it seems that the tooling often doesn't offer that support, or it isn't broadly known that it does. You are also marrying the tool as well as the language at that point, which might be deemed acceptable by some, but probably not all (I am not a fan of Lombok for similar reasons to why I would not be a fan of this). To me, you are better off with simpler abstractions and practices than amping up the base requirements of your developers and tooling.