[setr]

A friend once told me about a girl in their cs 101 class, who learned about arrays, and proceeded to make every variable an array. When queried, she responded, "I might end up realizing I need a multiple of the variable, and this way I won't have to change anything when I do".

[reificator]

Did she then go on to create jQuery? Because that concept (with a touch of functional inspiration) is one of the underlying ideas behind the library and why it was considered so much easier to work with than the DOM API.

I get where you're coming from, but I don't think it's a good reason to avoid classes. That's what they're there for.