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Yet I don't quite understand with all of the research and articles writen by very reputable sources, why some people would rather suffer with their issues then use hypnosis.

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Maybe hypnosis never occurs to a lot of people as a solution to their problems. They just don't know all the ways it can be helpful. Rick, I am not biased against hypnosis, but it actually never occurred to me to seek it out as a healing tool. I have been very open to the therapeutic tools my therapist employs. If he thinks something would be useful to me and I agree after his explanation, I would be willing to try it. (For example, he suggested EMDR to me and we did that several times with good results.) So if hypnosis was part of my T's tool set and he thought it would help me, I probably would try it.

Anyway, maybe a main issue is that people just don't know much about hypnosis and so don't think to seek it out. It probably doesn't help, when as you said, people who have been helped by it are shy about promoting it. (I'm certainly not shy about promoting EMDR, as the folks here can probably tell you. )