Working in the kernel or with drivers I see a lot of "object-oriented" finagling in C where there will be structs of function pointers alongside pointers to dat

Working in the kernel or with drivers I see a lot of "object-oriented" finagling in C where there will be structs of function pointers alongside pointers to data to operate on. Isn't this the best argument for something like OOP? You're basically creating an object at that point. Am I missing something?