The person you're responding to didn't misunderstand (or ask) how it works. They just find it inconvenient. It would be perfectly possible to add field access

The person you're responding to didn't misunderstand (or ask) how it works. They just find it inconvenient. It would be perfectly possible to add field access without needing to support arbitrary expressions. However, as someone coming from a C# background, I would very much prefer arbitrary expressions.