Look, I'm going to catch flak for this but at the end of the day the main problem is that Java and C++, the most popular OOP languages, are just bad programming

Look, I'm going to catch flak for this but at the end of the day the main problem is that Java and C++, the most popular OOP languages, are just bad programming languages. There are OOP languages out there, most of them older than Java and C++, that actually provide a much better set of knobs and handles for writing sane OO programs. Java is finally getting a bit better thanks to a lot of market pressure and good ideas from Kotlin. C++ will probably be a mess forever.