Is There a Need for a Static Method?

Sometimes what confuses people though is having a static method or just a plain function outside of the class. I would say more people err on trying to build up stuff into a bunch of classes, because they've seen that in other languages and it's not idiomatic code. We are so spoiled with the tools we have these days. And I remember pre-internet. It was hard programming. So lenders, tools that automatically fix things. That's what's next.