This sounds like OOP gone horribly wrong. OOP isn't for the code's benefit; it's for _my_ benefit. Some problems can be easily thought about in terms of indepe

This sounds like OOP gone horribly wrong. OOP isn't for the code's benefit; it's for _my_ benefit. Some problems can be easily thought about in terms of independent objects; it makes it easy to work out the solution, and to code an elegant, coherent solution. Some problems just don't suit that kind of thinking. Applying OOP to something it's not suited for and then blaming OOP for the resultant mess is just silly.