Not the OP, and I don't have any specific examples, but this was at the height of Waterfall (not in name, but in principle), where it was generally still taught

Not the OP, and I don't have any specific examples, but this was at the height of Waterfall (not in name, but in principle), where it was generally still taught as the way. Agile wasn't even a glimmer yet, but Extreme Programming was what Agile is now - interesting ideas, but mostly horribly executed. Plus OO was at it's height as well, and C++ was seen as being incapable of handling OO sophistication, but Smalltalk could! (spoiler: it couldn't either) Then Java came and took over, and while it is a great language, it turns out massive, sophisticated OO approaches just breed their own complexity and so it picked up the "bad" moniker (it isn't), and now we find ourselves in other waters with a lot better understanding of everything, but still with a long way to go!