You're right. I do have feelings on the matter because every entrepreneurial bone in me screams when I see articles like these. Users care about robust and reliable software, good UX, and accessible interfaces and companies care about doing that at a decent cost. And then come developers who have no single practical or objective arguments, just subjective feelings on the matter. I have yet to see an article that explains how moving from OOP to functional improves the software, reduces its energy footprint, its development and maintenance cost and makes it a joy to use for all users. So React ditched classes and we should too? Well, React also made web accessibility worse, should we follow that too? If developers cared only half as much about accessibility as they care about classes and stuff, we'd have a web that doesn't discriminate against 15%+ of its users.