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It seems that the Mappable trait only exposes additional getters/setters for the mapped columns. Is there any intention to make this trait behavior similar to laravel/framework #8200 where the "bad" column name is actually removed as a getter/setter?

Example:

MariaDB> describe cities;
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field         | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id            | int(11) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| region        | varchar(5)       | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| region_id     | int(11)          | NO   |     | NULL    |                |
| name          | varchar(100)     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

MariaDB> select * from cities;
+----+--------+-----------+-----------------+
| id | region | region_id | name            |
+----+--------+-----------+-----------------+
|  1 | NY     |         1 | New York        |
|  2 | NY     |         1 | Brooklyn        |

MariaDB> describe regions;
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field         | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+---------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id            | int(11) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| name          | varchar(100)     | NO   |     | NULL    |                |

MariaDB> select * from regions;
+----+------------------+
| id | name             |
+----+------------------+
|  1 | New York         |

class City extends Model
{
    use Eloquence, Mappable;

    public $timestamps = false;
    protected $maps = [
        "region_name" => "region",
    ];
 
    public function region()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Region::class);
    }
}

echo City::with('region')->find(1)->toJson();
/*
{
    "id": 1,
    "region": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "New York"
    },
    "region_id": 1,
    "name": "New York"
}
*/

echo City::with('region')->find(1)->region; 
/*
"NY"
*/

The first example behaves as I would expect; however, in the second example I would expect it to return a class of type Region. Instead it's finding the underlying getter and fetching the region name instead.