The R package allows people to get/set the column data with:
se$X <- runif(ncol(se))
se$X
as a shorthand for colData(se)$X. Doing the same for Python would allow users to replace
se.get_column_data().get_column("X")
se.set_column_data(se.get_column_data().set_column("X", ...)))
with just
se.get_column_data_column("X")
se.set_column_data_column("X", ...)
The second one is particularly convenient.