Very much agreed, the point you're making is exactly why I hate languages that try to hide the fact that programming is difficult, to make the life of the devel

Very much agreed, the point you're making is exactly why I hate languages that try to hide the fact that programming is difficult, to make the life of the developer easy. This almost inevitably encourages bad programming practices, and does not do anything to improve code quality produced by incapable developers. It's why I dislike Java so much and prefer C++, even though both have their strong and weak points, and both can be used to create great software. That said, I've stopped taking 'OO is bad' articles seriously long ago. Over 15 years of professional software development have sufficiently proven for me that there are many problems that fit the OO model perfectly, and would not benefit in any way from switching paradigms. Just like some (but decidedly less) other problems are a perfect fit for functional programming or procedural programming. There is no silver bullet in programming, what works best is entirely dictated by the problem, and problems come in infinite varieties.