Maybe the "impedance mismatch" between pure-fp and I/O is too great, with the IO monad being the "leaky abstraction" of the FP world.
Then OO is not a bad solution to an irrelevant problem, but a pretty-good solution to a bad relevant problem.
EDIT:
To clarify: The "problem" is change.
Imperative programming relates sequential device-change over time, to sequential programming lines. OO programming is a structured imperative programming.
Pure FP langs model sequential change with (roughly,) lists of actions to-be-performed that are snaked through your program.
(Also: maybe OO's failure has more to do with its limited static analysis, type systems, than its model of change?)