Your situation was a perfect example of why I so violently, vehemently oppose object oriented programming and why I fight the people trying to promote it at eve

Your situation was a perfect example of why I so violently, vehemently oppose object oriented programming and why I fight the people trying to promote it at every turn and opportunity (often in person and it can get extremely ugly -- and that is good so). Object oriented code is a nightmare to debug -- I've wasted countless years stepping through the debugger trying to follow the complex state machines I was debugging. Data hiding, one of the main selling points of this programming technique, makes it even worse with regard to building a mental model of the state of the machine. Resolving what the data is in order to understand where the problem resides ends up being extremely tedious and painful. It's like they are trying to prove that they are really, really smart without anyone asking them to prove it. But here is my challenge: anyone can overcomplicate anything, but if one is really smart, make a complex thing simple.