I'm not sure. As someone who's mostly self taught I don't really understand the big deal either way. I mostly learned about the idea behind oop while trying to

I'm not sure. As someone who's mostly self taught I don't really understand the big deal either way. I mostly learned about the idea behind oop while trying to implement my own classes using metatables in lua and trying to manually deal with problems languages with built in classes deal with for you. I like the idea of encapsulating functions with data and like the ability to inherit to subclasses. I don't really like languages like java that enforce oop at the language level. I prefer languages like D, python or c++ that offer it as a tool but don't restrict you to writing strictly oop code. I find D's class implentation to be the simplest to understand. With classes being reference types with inheritence and structs being value types lacking inheritence. It makes it clear to me when a type should be a class and when it should be a struct or some other data type.