You may not recall the crazy era of OOP where people would go bonkers with massive object trees trying to objectify everything and using operator overloading to do (dumb) things like adding a control to a window with +=.

OOP is great. "OOP is the one perfect paradigm for all coding" was the craze.

I'm sure I'm not the first person you've seen hinting at OOP (and all that came with it) having been hyped up beyond its merits.

There certainly was an OOP craze, that's not out of touch to talk about.