[tonyarkles]

A corollary to this is that C# property accesses can have side effects. I recently started working on a legacy code base where reordering access to a set of properties on an object resulted in different results!

And I'm not saying that properties are strictly a negative; in some cases, they can be very useful for refactoring an underlying implementation without having to change the API exposed to callers. But just like any magic, it needs to be applied thoughtfully and judiciously.