One of the most common places front-end devs encountered call/apply was when binding functions to event handlers. In those cases an anonymous function was often

One of the most common places front-end devs encountered call/apply was when binding functions to event handlers. In those cases an anonymous function was often generated which used apply or call. Bind replaces this dance for many cases. Hence, most cases where devs encountered js call/apply were replaced by bind. There are differences between the two, but they largely didn't matter for most cases.