I never said encapsulation was easy or obvious in C, just that it's nothing new or inherently OOP-based. I also never said that you should never use inheritance

I never said encapsulation was easy or obvious in C, just that it's nothing new or inherently OOP-based. I also never said that you should never use inheritance, I was just quoting the author, who, in his "defence" of OOP admits that OOP's only unique feature should not be used at all.