In the 90s, a lot of c++ and Java code was giant trees of inheritance and everyone always talked about design like all real code fit neatly into hierarchies like the examples about animals and whatnot. There are always fashionable ways to overengineer and for a time it was OOP abuse, and the sane people that had to live through it honestly have some trauma over it and difficulty explaining just how bad it was because newer people have never seen the insanity.
In the 90s, a lot of c++ and Java code was giant trees of inheritance and everyone always talked about design like all real code fit neatly into hierarchies like the examples about animals and whatnot. There are always fashionable ways to overengineer and for a time it was OOP abuse, and the sane people that had to live through it honestly have some trauma over it and difficulty explaining just how bad it was because newer people have never seen the insanity.