[untog]

You can, yes. But the developer working on the codebase you’re going to inherit might not. Class components are usefully opinionated in that way.

[oaxacaoaxaca]

Yep. And isolated functions are a solution, but sometimes it just makes way more sense for that function to be a method of a class. And for the function component to be a class component. I think there's space for both types of components, and I just hope that class components don't become deprecated.

[nightski]

Absolutely there are cases where class components make sense. I highly doubt they would ever depreciate them.