So what happens down the road when you do need it? Seems to me it violates DRY and borks your serialization for save states. Maybe it's just in this particular

So what happens down the road when you do need it? Seems to me it violates DRY and borks your serialization for save states. Maybe it's just in this particular example though, or maybe it should be viewed not on a code level but more on a feature set level.