> OOP was pitched as a one-size-fits-all solution to all problems, and as a checklist of items that would turn a cheap offshored programmer into a real software engineer.

Not initially. Eventually, everything that reaches a certain minimal popularity in software development level gets pitched by snake-oil salesman to enterprise management as a solution to that problem, including things developed specifically to deal with the problem of othee solutions being cargo culted and repackaged that way, whether its a programming paradigm or a development methodology or metamethodology.