Most people don't have even the most basic understanding of how they reason about and write code. So they just follow "best" practices and other kinds of dogma.

Most people don't have even the most basic understanding of how they reason about and write code. So they just follow "best" practices and other kinds of dogma. Nothing wrong with that. But it does make it harder to have a meaningful discussion about "bad" code and how to improve things. And I do think there is a room for a tenfold improvement in reliability/productivity compared to OOP.