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My opinion is you should use it when it's useful, but not when it's unnecessary. Their main use case is when you need to couple the functionality of functions to a shared state, and it's particularly useful when you have multiple interdependent functions that need to be tied to multiple codependent states.
I find it relatively rare when I really need to use a class. Between first class functions and closures and modules and other features, I find JavaScript has a lot of tools to avoid needing classes. Classes add complexity so I only use them when the complexity they add is less than the complexity of the task they're needed for.