I've seen people reference that "`this` keyword is confusing" argument it has to be something people picked up at a conference or on twitter and just repeat. A

I've seen people reference that "`this` keyword is confusing" argument it has to be something people picked up at a conference or on twitter and just repeat. And if they really wanna go there, it was the React team itself that took away method auto-binding when they forced everyone to use `class` keyword. Mixins were already available in `createClass`, and if they wanted privacy between mixins, that's totally do-able with Symbols.