Why is an Add method required for { } initialization?

Question

To use initialization syntax like this:

var contacts = new ContactList
{
    { \"Dan\", \"dan.tao@email.com\" },
    { \"Eric\", \"ceo@google.com\" }
};
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Answer 1

Collection initializers are expressions, so they can be used where only expression are valid, such as a field initializer or LINQ query. This makes their existence very useful.

I also think the curly-bracketed { } kind of initialization, smells more like a fixed size collection, but it's just a syntax choice.