I'm a heavy user of properties in other languages like C#, but in Objective C, to define the anonymous category with all the property ceremony and verbiage, fee

I'm a heavy user of properties in other languages like C#, but in Objective C, to define the anonymous category with all the property ceremony and verbiage, feels...excessive...if all you need is some private state, and you don't care about generated accessors or KVO. Why are ivars bad, exactly? They're a lot more succinct if you don't actually need what properties give you.