>I am not emulating this behavior with structs. Just because they tell you in C++ 101 that a struct and a class is the same thing doesn't mean it actually is in a general sense. A struct has no methods in general. It's just raw data. A class is more of a mixture of data AND methods. OOP is the later not the former

I think we should focus on semantics here rather on syntax only.

Objects are dividable in roughly two categories: entities/values and services. If your project prefers the "anemic model" then your entities/values will be "raw data" (anemic model) but your services will be proper classes that contain both data (dependencies) and behavior (methods). In our case, a logger is an instance of a service. I myself prefer this approach where class-based services operate on what is essentially structs (it's very common in the field I work at). So this approach is very much procedural-like in a way and deviates from pure OOP but the way dependencies of services are managed and passed around, by reusing OOP primitives, is already far more flexible and modular (i.e. we have a dependency tree of services which communicate via interfaces initialized at construction time) than what you are trying to propose (concrete structs, passing dependencies via arguments).