> Because there are many low skill, poorly-informed people who write code still believe these things. In particular that "OOP" is automatically equivalent to "better quality code."

This about sums up my experience with these discussions, too. I know a lot of people who are absolutely convinced that C++ "is better" than C because you can write object-oriented code in it -- you have native support for "classes and stuff".

The whole "is better than" thing is a little childish to begin with, but this argument is on the thin and confusing border between "meaningless" and "but why?"