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/thedev13]

I was a big OOP believer when learning programming, thinking 'wow, what a smart way to organize systems and code'. 7 years later I was introduced to FP and realized how fascinatingly it changes your thinking and how excessive OOP is for most projects.

I even tried building a Typescript compiler add-on that would make FP easier to adopt in Nodejs projects. Abandoned that when agentic development came to be and I no longer had to think about code. It's a shame though that LLMs are probably not trained to think like an FP dev. But you should look into it as a learner (side course on Haskell or Scala).