Programming is fundamentally about the transformation of data and sometimes data is in such a shape that inevitably requires such code. Most of the time, you do

Programming is fundamentally about the transformation of data and sometimes data is in such a shape that inevitably requires such code. Most of the time, you don't get to decide what shape the data is in. OOP just obfuscates this basic fact of programming life to the point where it's not obvious anymore. That is not a good thing, it's a huge waste of time. Favor plain data over "objects" and functions over methods. Favor plain SQL queries over ORM.