Can `new` be optional?

[Andrea Giammarchi]

> Why does calling a class throw an exception instead of just creating a
new instance

backward compatibility and early "rushed" behavior is one of the reasons.

`String() instanceof String` is false and it's just one example.

Because of primitives and `typeof`, `new Symbol` throws too, you are not
meant to do that.

Array and Regexp though, have no primitive namespace, but that's old gotcha
later specs tried to prevent.

What about `new Date` ? Now that's an instance, while `Date()` is a string.

Using `new` makes your intent unambiguous in a PL where functions can be
used as constructors too.

There is also the possibility to create functions that cannot be used as
`new`:

```js
const method = {method(){}}.method;

new method; // throws
```

Accordingly, since you have Reflect for all procedural use cases, what is
the benefit of not using `new` where it's an instance of that Class you are
after?
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