I understand 'this', that's why I avoid it. All languages have their quirks, and some programmers like to think they're 'smart' by taking advantage of those quirks. Then when you or your team members run into problems you blame the person and not the language, which you're right, but maybe you should of just kept your code simple in the first place.
Dereferencing things that aren't pointers leads to unexpected results in C. Should we avoid dereferencing any variable in C?
I think of `this` in the same way - it behaves normally if you use it the way it's intended to be used. In other words, don't try to read `this` in a callback without binding it first, and you'll be fine.
