You had bad teachers which says nothing about the paradigm or how it's taught generally. When I did my CS classes (at the beginning of the 'OOP will solve all

You had bad teachers which says nothing about the paradigm or how it's taught generally. When I did my CS classes (at the beginning of the 'OOP will solve all the problems' era), we had excellent introductions to encapsulation and polymorphism and the rest with detailed examples in (early, cfront) C++ and Modula-2 & Ada. But then we had FP with SML & Hope and a couple of others that were poorly taught and most of us thought "this functional stuff is awful". YMMV.