As per #3154 (comment)

ended up making everything proprties, because all of those are used to compute some stuff in the __init__ that wouldn't be updated if one changed the values at runtime.

Checklist for PRs

• Added .. versionadded:: version, .. versionchanged:: version or .. deprecated:: version to the docstrings for user facing changes (for methods/class descriptions, arguments and attributes)
• Created new or adapted existing unit tests
• Documented code changes according to the CSI standard
• Added myself alphabetically to AUTHORS.rst (optional)
• Added new classes & modules to the docs and all suitable __all__ s