I used to be balls deep into OOP. I was in the rabbit hole. For me it was _the_ way programs had to be written. Whenever I started a new project, it would start

I used to be balls deep into OOP. I was in the rabbit hole. For me it was _the_ way programs had to be written. Whenever I started a new project, it would start out as a bunch of interfaces and abstract classes (with the god abstract class which everything extended from present and accounted for). At the time there was also the transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5 which unlocked a treasure trove of new OOP features and obviously every one of those features had to be used. However when things went wrong they would often turn into a nightmare, spending hours chasing down obscure bugs with endless print_r's to follow state changes. Over time I became better at managing this, keeping the amount of abstractions lower and just general better OOP design, but I was still afraid whenever things would go south, it meant hours of debugging, as was often the case. At one point or another I started asking questions about OOP design, the nature and origin of it and searched the internet for answers. Along the way I started realizing that many of the problems I was having are intrinsic to OOP. Whenever I would search for solutions to the complexity of OOP the answer would always be: you're doing it wrong. Along the way I transitioned to OOP-less programming (I'm calling it OOP-less because I don't want to start a fight over "functional" vs "procedural" vs "..." etc...), not with the intention to do away with OOP but just to play with it. I rewrote some earlier, simple programs and what became rapidly obvious was how easy the code was to debug. The datastructures I had written prior were way too complex with too many levels and useless wrappers to make everything fit into the OOP paradigm. I rapidly became annoyed with the complexity of OOP and realized, I was in a rabbit hole and I had dug in _deep_. Even now when I'm writing bigger programs OOP-less I still find them much easier to debug. I'm still afraid debugging sessions can get rough but as time passes by this seems like more of a PTSD effect from my 15 year long OOP stint. By now I've mostly done away with OOP programs but it's still annoying to have to interface with OOP designed libraries. I also changed my coding style camelCase to snake_case and the latter is much more legible to me but as a lot of libraries use camelCase or PascalCase it doesn't make the code look pretty. So yes long story short, I share your assignment of blame. Complexity just seems to be the nature of the beast.