@vaporeon_ its pretty hard to explain why something like object-oriented programming would be tempting until you've worked on a shitty codebase that has existed for a decade and has thousands of lines of code written by dozens of people, most who no longer work at the company anymore

some sort of organized design pattern is very useful in this situation. its not even that object-oriented programming itself is particularly good or bad (ive seen some horrendous object-oriented design) but the fact that its some sort of paradigm at all helps onboard developers new to the codebase.