So add all this up and we have /three/ kind of finalness for fields: - by default mutable, but you can change it - by default final, and you can't change it - (and now) by default final, but you can change it This seems like quite a bad situation to me.
I think what you are really saying here is: if you want immutable records, wait for value records, don't try to cram them in early? Then a record inherits the finality of the class kind that it is describing. And same with field accessibility.