I mostly agree, but one really nice use case for recursion is when dealing with trees. For example, writing a function parse_object() that recursively calls itself to parse child objects is way more pleasant than manually managing your own stack, especially if the tree has many kinds of objects and many branches.
Unfortunately in most languages this pattern will lead to stack overflow on medium-sized inputs, so you can't often use it unless you're using a language like Racket or Erlang which can't really stack overflow.
Unfortunately in most languages this pattern will lead to stack overflow on medium-sized inputs, so you can't often use it unless you're using a language like Racket or Erlang which can't really stack overflow.