Quoting the author: “`this` in JavaScript is unique, powerful, and occasionally perplexing.”

Yet the article goes on to outline the deterministic rules governing context. So, if the behavior of `this` is entirely rule-based and predictable, how can the result it points to in a given context be “occasionally perplexing”?

And what exactly is the “Strange Truth […] That Nobody Talks About” promised in the title? Frankly, the entire premise smacks of clickbait. Unless the article dares to boldly acknowledge (hence “talk about”) that JavaScript is far from a “toy language” — and that a substantial portion of developers simply lack the discipline or motivation to truly master its core fundamentals; closures, context binding, and delegation, both implicit via the prototype chain and explicit through `call` and `apply`. Mastering these concepts isn’t optional; it’s the price of admission to professional JavaScript development.