Any abstract advice that's like "do this instead of something else" looks to me like the person had a bad experience and is generalizing from it. This goes both

Any abstract advice that's like "do this instead of something else" looks to me like the person had a bad experience and is generalizing from it. This goes both ways, applying to both the original hype about OOP, and this sort of modern anti-OOP hype. It turns out bad code is possible regardless of which design pattern is used.