"I believe OOP and relational database get a lot of flack because programmers tend to be bad at design, not because they are broken paradigms". This is very tru

"I believe OOP and relational database get a lot of flack because programmers tend to be bad at design, not because they are broken paradigms". This is very true. Another more charitable interpretation is that sometimes deadlines prevent programmers from thinking their models thoroughly and so an imperfect model ends being used, causing problems in the future.