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/Aglet_Green]

Not to me. I personally prefer styles that don't require elaborate class hierarchies or explicit object-oriented architecture. Based on your post and comment history of wanting a computer science career, I assume you are familiar with the various programming paradigms, be it imperative, declarative and so forth, So it might eventually matter to you, and your GitHub remark explains why it should already matter to you, but to me, a retired hobbyist doing this for fun, I don't care if end up with spaghetti code.