That's it. "Best practices" is, essentially, coding bureaucracy. That's not a pejorative; bureaucracy is quite necessary. I have a rough idea of "why OO?" but

That's it. "Best practices" is, essentially, coding bureaucracy. That's not a pejorative; bureaucracy is quite necessary. I have a rough idea of "why OO?" but in practice, it can be pretty hard on things like certain kinds of scaling, projects that require a goodly amount of serialization/configurability and the like.