The university I went to for my undergrad very much drilled it into us that Getters and Setters are the thing to do. I got out into the working world after that

The university I went to for my undergrad very much drilled it into us that Getters and Setters are the thing to do. I got out into the working world after that and it seems everyone else was taught the same thing. When I actually came to change things it never seemed to help and I always had to rewrite mountains of cruddy things. It came to the point that I would automate so much of the code generation using python. If I can automate it with a tiny fraction of the code then there is certainly something wrong with the design and premise. These and other similar things drove me to hate OOP and software engineering. It seems like people always missed the proper abstraction. Then I discovered Haskell and wandered more into the theoretical aspects of computer language theory. I now have an appreciation for OOP but not the way I was taught...