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>(dynamic)States exist in real life. Temperature, pressure, height, volume, brightness, weight...

It's more like, states better match our more common way to model our sense-data. It's easier to grasp for us, but it doesn't mean it's the way that will cause provide the best desirable results.

If you take the example of mass in physic, most of the time it's perfectly fine to deal with it as an first class attribute of an object. But it's not how Higgs mechanism aboard the notion.




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