I had difficulties learning OOP, I always preferred a more functional style, despite "consensus" needing 20 years to catch on that functional programming allevi

I had difficulties learning OOP, I always preferred a more functional style, despite "consensus" needing 20 years to catch on that functional programming alleviates a lot of the issues we have with OOP. Learning F# it instantly clicked. OOP learning issues IMHO are intrinsic to the style, because it's just so seldom helpful in making programming easier. Design patterns are just a symptom of this issue. That OOP is just a misunderstanding another. "Real" OOP as practiced in Erlang/Elixir is quite useful.