Presentational/Container components: are these terms misleading?

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Presentational/Container have long been suggested as terms to describe two different classes of React components. However I think these terms are a bit deceptive, and don't accurately represent the differences between them:

Presentational components

• can "contain" other components, thus they also act as containers
• not concerned merely with "presentation" (in the same way that CSS is)

Container components

• do more than simply "contain" other components. Containing other components is not what makes them unique
• have an active role in accessing and mutating the state of your application. This is what differentiates them from "presentational" components.

Suggested replacement terms

I find the concepts of Container/Presentational components very useful, but also think that Active/Passive are better terms for describing the differences:

Active Components

• Are concerned with how things work/behave
• Interact with the store(s) for accessing your application's state
• Act on your app state by launching actions
• Can have changing state

Passive Components

• Only responsible for rendering UI as a function of props
• "Do what they're told" by their Active ancestors in the tree
• Are not stateful