This is also one upside of functional programming over OOP that I think doesn't get mentioned often: No need for naming classes and stuff as inherent part of wr

This is also one upside of functional programming over OOP that I think doesn't get mentioned often: No need for naming classes and stuff as inherent part of writing valid and structured code. It's part of the taxonomization issue. By naming something, we make it a Thing. It forms a shape in our minds. However small, it has a history and a purpose. It has relationships to other Things. Its identity is now something we take custody of, by continuously interacting with it. This can help in the smaller context but does not scale. One example is organization of e-mail. The traditional inbox approach makes you create folders. You have to give name and meaning to each of these. Organize them into trees of subfolders. Contrast this with the search-based approach popularized by Google and notmuch - tags/labels are optional but in general you have "an ocean of mail" which you search on an ad-hoc basis[0]. I think the OPs point can be taken further. That there's an inherent human instinct to want to name and create Things and that it's beneficial to be aware of and overcome this instinct. I have a bunch of useful code and scripts spread across a couple of libraries. I could hypothetically break out anywhere from a handful to dozens of focused individual repos with a fancy Name. Make them into npm packages, give them each a logo, maybe even separate websites and chat rooms[1]. At the extreme, look at the pathological Clueless-driven big-tech with a gazillion Projects, Initiatives, Frameworks, Processes, Working Groups, Epics, Task Forces, Swim Lanes, continuously churning through birth and death. The meta-abstractions start to run the show. [0]: I happen to prefer the mailbox approach myself! Of course the taxonization and structuring is not all bad - here the history and meaning is inherent and useful. My point is rather that it should be applied consciously. And in my mailbox, as opposed to in much of the software I write, the Things and their forms are entirely self-inflicted (hello NSA) and not something hoisted on the minds of others. [1]: This is apparently fashionable recently among 10x Open Source GitHub Rock Stars. It's also particularly a disease in crypto with all these "Protocol"s each spawning their own fractal universe of Things.