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seems very elitist to say functional vs imperative depends on the caliber of the developer. there's plenty of reasons to choose either paradigm. language choice is a reasonable factor. just because you like OO doesn't mean you are bad and just because you like functional doesn't mean you are good

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I think OO when done right looks very much like FP. The problem is that OOP is just as hard as FP to write since most languages that claim to be OO languages are actually heavily procedural in nature.

what if my object has first class functions as all of its members? i am then bad and good?

you're a few thousand unit tests away from web scale

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