[baranul]

This is a very good point. A greater distinction needs to be made about class-based versus class-free OOP. Many of the problems or constraints around OOP that people don't like, come back to classes.

Often class-based programming is confused as being the only style of OOP, superior to all other styles, or heavy-handedly pushed on others. Many programmers are perfectly fine with using objects or only specific features of OOP, without classes, if they are "allowed" to.