> The "anemic way" had won because it is much more reusable and maintains API stability. Incidentally, this approach have smoothed the transition to functional

> The "anemic way" had won because it is much more reusable and maintains API stability. Incidentally, this approach have smoothed the transition to functional languages — "NounVerber" objects became modules (collections of functions), and value objects became immutable data types. I agree. By the way, you can do that even in imperative languages. I do it all the time in Python or Go.