Agree. The prototype paradigm is really powerful, but a lot of people feel lazy to learn it, and to learn how JavaScript actually works.
When ES6 comes out, people will finally get syntactic sugar classes included by default.
But, ES6 will still be a prototype-based language (yay!), its just that it will have the class keyword integrated.
Now, I'm not saying that syntactic sugar is bad at all.
Oh no, not at all; I'm pretty excited about arrow functions myself.
Is just that, even coding with ES6, I'm gonna still be trying to use `Object.create()` over classes and `new`, when possible ;)