system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is recursion so praised despite it typically using more memory and not being any faster than iteration?

For example, a naive approach to calculating Fibonacci numbers recursively would yield a time complexity of O(2\^n) and use up way more memory due to adding calls on the stack vs an iterative approach where the time complexity would be O(n). Even if you use dynamic programming for a recursive solution, you'd get the same time complexity as the iterative solution while using up much more memory. Especially if your iterative solution just uses an array of two elements to calculate the numbers in the sequence.
gpt
Because there are times when it's clearer to define an algorithm recursively than iteratively, and it can be cleaner in the theoretical sense (less explicit tracking of state, for example).

Consider looping through the nodes of a tree. In a recursive algorithm, the state of your search is stored in the call stack. With an iterative approach, you may have to use a structure like a stack to store which nodes to visit next. It's doable, but not as pretty.