If I want a static constructor method right now I need to use the component name.

This works, but is not very flexible. Even adding basic inheritance breaks this down:

This will still return Foo since that is the component being created in the static create method.

You can override the static create method in Bar to return the right value:

But that isn't very flexible.

I propose being able to create a new instance of a component from a static method like so:

Using the static keyword as a constructor would create a new instance of the component and call that component's init method with any arguments passed. With this syntax, we could bring back our old Bar component:

And this code would execute as expected: