[moonchrome]

>OO definitely produces complex systems. And, let me be clear, by OO I mean the social consensus in OO circles, not the paradigm itself or the technical tools. My take is that OO circles host a cottage industry of consultancies and gurus peddling a stream of design patterns, advices, etc. which end up layering in any long-lived OO codebase and create unnecessary complexity.

This right here. Every time I hear mid level dev bring up DDD I contemplate quitting and spending some time looking for a Rust or Clojure gig. Sometimes it gets so bad I think about biting the bullet and going to node.js

C# isn't a bad language, even the frameworks are taking a nice turn towards simplification (eg. ASP.NET Minimal APIs, EF direct SQL queries) but the culture it creates... LAYERS of bullshit :D