Comment by xnorswap

This is my experience too, I've worked on code bases which made heavy use of attributes, and they work really well to provide static per-type information, but if you see them as a universal problem solver and try to go too fancy, you'll find yourself in trouble.

Fluent builders are nicer to work with than attributes, although it sometimes feels weird if the defaults are nearly fine but not quite, and you wish you could just reach for a single attribute rather than having to traverse down 3 layers of builders to change a single property.