[dragonwriter]

> How is it that objects are an accepted thing for basically every programming environment in modern use,

They aren't accepted for basically every programming environmental nment in modern use; peak OOP-all-the-things is well in the past, and it's no longer the one paradigm to rule them all, irrespective of use case.

[nailer]

Whether you have methods or functions, you still have hashmaps - bash you scrape values, pwsh you select keys. Pipelines can be considered quite functional too.