> OOP is an industry of its own which generates a ton of incidental complexity.

And that "ton" is still miniscule compared to front-end development which almost completely eschews OOP and has 10x more incidental complexity.

I guess my point is that, while OOP's incidental complexity is large, it's still insignificant compared to other technology stacks which developers are showing a great appetite for anyway. Things like "incidental complexity" is irrelevant to developers anyway, today, at the tail end of 2024.

IOW, OOP introduces significantly less $BAD_THING, when the clear majority of developers don't even care about the quantity of $BAD_THING in the first place, making the whole "should we use OOP" argument moot.

Doesn't matter if you use it or not, the extra introduced incidental complexity is still going to be insignificant due to the complexity load of the entire project, more so in front-end.

Hence, there's no point in having the argument in the first place.