Agreed, OOP became 10 times worse after the GoF book. People started to see these patterns everywhere, and mutated fine looking code to conform to that expectat

Agreed, OOP became 10 times worse after the GoF book. People started to see these patterns everywhere, and mutated fine looking code to conform to that expectation. Just compare Java classes and interfaces when the language was created (most of that based on previous experience with Smalltalk) and the hot mess that was invented after GoF was released.