[notinreallife]

My guess is that most "OOP-happy" people never get a chance to see beautiful procedural code so they're just afraid of it. A lot of developers nowadays are trained to smite any code that isn't following OOP principles or design.

[nibnib]

Not necessarily afraid, possibly just unfamiliar. I can remember programming like this because C++ was the first language I knew well and I was interested in using all the available features. In my mind that was just how things were done. When I had more of an incentive to just Get Stuff Done and keep things maintainable simpler procedural code made a lot more sense.