There is one potentially ambiguous case for @JsonCreator: a single-argument creator, with implicit (but not explicit) name for the argument, could conceivably be either delegating- or property-based creator. Although better heuristics might be able to choose correctly, it is likely that there are cases where no heuristic could give 100% correct result, and an explicit override is needed.
Further, extension modules may want to have a say here as well (for example, Scala module has better class metadata available), and adding a property to introspect allows overriding of introspection.
There is one potentially ambiguous case for
@JsonCreator: a single-argument creator, with implicit (but not explicit) name for the argument, could conceivably be either delegating- or property-based creator. Although better heuristics might be able to choose correctly, it is likely that there are cases where no heuristic could give 100% correct result, and an explicit override is needed. Further, extension modules may want to have a say here as well (for example, Scala module has better class metadata available), and adding a property to introspect allows overriding of introspection.