The real danger of OOP is that people mangle it and use far too much state. At some point there is virtually no difference between a class with many variables and global variables yet this is exactly what we teach freshmen.
Is that a bad thing? Global variables keep cropping up in programming languages, so large objects (context-globals; namespaces) might be just the right compromise between encapsulation and coherence.
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The real danger of OOP is that people mangle it and use far too much state. At some point there is virtually no difference between a class with many variables and global variables yet this is exactly what we teach freshmen.
Is that a bad thing? Global variables keep cropping up in programming languages, so large objects (context-globals; namespaces) might be just the right compromise between encapsulation and coherence.