No, it helped. What OOP gave us, was the ability to intelligently abstract complexity.

I’ve been coding since we used flint knives, and can tell you, from personal experience, that it did.

However, when it was introduced, it was done so, with some of the most outrageous claptrap I’ve ever heard. It came out of the starting gate, hobbled.

Those of us grizzled vets, with hype-scars, ignored that shit, and did pretty well.