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replaced http://magento.stackexchange.com/ with https://magento.stackexchange.com/

I think you misunderstanding plugins and preferences.

If you want to override an entire class you need to use preferences:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">   
    <preference for="Magento\Sales\Block\Adminhtml\Order\View"
                type="SR\StackExchange\Block\Adminhtml\Order\View" />
</config>

You can get a good read about the differences between plugins and preferences here: Magento2: what is the basic difference between plugin and preference?