[materialpoint]

Serialization is a pretty good cause.

[NetMageSCW]

Serialization shouldn’t be dependent on the name of the backing field.

[materialpoint]

You are conflating awkward auto-generated backing fields with plain backing fields. A proper serializer handles these cases. Yes, serialization should and must depend on names, how else to put things back together? The onus is always on the programmer to not break serialization, or provide migration.