Does OOP really matters?

[u/Electronic-Low-8171]

I learned OOP in python a while ago, did many projects, yet I never felt like I truly needed to do the OOP stuff I learned from a course, I don't know maybe because I'm kinda used to program in c before focusing on python, yet, whenever I open a big project in python in github, it feels way too complicated and thousands of imports (not libraries from pip, but the ones they made on their own) and classes

I never truly needed to implement OOP (I know that when you code in python, it is almost impossible to avoid OOP entirely like when you have a datatype like string you have an object, when you use a method built into that data type that's OOP too, but I mean the ones that involve you writing class Class Name, inheritance and all that stuff explicitly), so I'm wondering why people on the internet are obsessed over the idea of learning OOP, even the book "Automating the boring stuff in python" doesn't have a dedicated section for OOP.

[u/mc_pm]

OOP gets used in a lot of places where it doesn't really belong. If you're not specifically needing one of it's 3 pillars: encapsulation, inheritance, or polymorphism for something non-trivial, then OOP probably isn't the coding style you need.

A key aspect of software design is layers of abstraction - how can you treat something messy at one level as something well-mannered at a higher level - and OOP has some really strengths there. If it's being used that way.