[valand]

In order for a programmer to program in many patterns elegantly, one must first have understanding of those patterns and how they are roughly reduced to machine code.

The skill of experiencing trumps the amount of experience.

Bad programmers need to hone their skill to experience in order to become good programmers. The most popular way is to provide them a safe environment to make mistake and learn from it. But the most important way is actually knowing that skill of experiencing and getting out of biases are important, like in this case "if OOP is indeed bad, why is it invented in the first place", and the rabbit hole actually gets interesting from here.

At least that's my take after a few years in the industry.