[field: SerializeField] is a great way to convert explicit pairs of public/protected backing fields with properties into "auto-property-style" declarations and still be able to serialize in the Unity Editor, but be cautious: some parts of Unity's old editor GUI system doesn't comprehend the syntax during reflection and will behave in odd ways. However, it is great most of the time and encouraged for cleaning up outdated codebases.

You can attach other kinds of attributes (which have the AttributeUsage target flag AttributeTargets.Property) to get/set methods of properties though:

protected int _count ;
public int Counter { //! Aggressive inlining (0x100):
	[MethodImpl(0x100)] get => _count ;
	[MethodImpl(0x100)] set => _count = value ;
}

(And there are of course other specifiers, like return:, method:, etc ...)

EDIT :: Doubled back to delete that dead attribute on line 598 and gave an explanation (has an explicit field already serialized) ...