Yes, people have abused OOP and every other programming paradigm or tool as well. It's probably a necessary aspect to learning something new... do something con

Yes, people have abused OOP and every other programming paradigm or tool as well. It's probably a necessary aspect to learning something new... do something contrived, atrocious, and trivial in order to understand the concepts. The OOP naysayers seem to often knock the textbook examples, but there are a lot of creative things that can be done with OOP that get around the criticisms.