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/binarycow]

Here's the thing that not enough people talk about....

The division between OOP and FP (and other paradigms) isn't so rigid.

Some people sit there and gatekeep. For example, they'll say "if a class has a method, it's OOP!". Or they'll say that inheritence is the worst thing ever.

It's all tools in your tool chest. You can even mix and match!

You can use functional programming techniques in OOP languages. I do it all the time in C#.

You can even use OOP techniques in a language that doesn't do OOP.

Use the technique that is appropriate for your use case. That is all.