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Those are not mutually inclusive things.
You're right, I do not come out of web development. I don't enjoy non-web development. The benefits of OOP outside of web development has no relevance to my opinion on it. I speak as a web programmer, not as a general programmer.

A lot of web developers (specifically lower-tier ones) don't acknowledge or appreciate elements of programming that have less relevance to the web platform, so to speak. My statement was covering that generality or otherwise populace, it didn't have direct correspondence to you. Sorry if it came out that way.

I'm not going to use OOP in web development when it has no benefits in web development. Feel free to use it in other languages. I don't give a shit, 'cause I'm not using those languages, so there's no reason for me to comment on its appropriateness in them. But OOP sucks in languages like PHP.

But the applicability of OOP is universal. And as Artificial said, OOP in PHP is currently pretty solid (and after some pondering I sort of see that, too).

If you don't particularly appreciate OOP (mind your seldom use cases), then try writing a sufficiently extensive application or system. I can wholeheartedly guarantee you that you'll see a whole new world of possibilities and convenience.

And being the pedantic person I am, I'm going to go ahead and be cheeky and just reciprocate your "OOP sucks in languages like PHP" statement and tell you so does PHP. Deal with it.

My larger-scale applications do use OOP. As I said, I use it when I write an extensible feature that I want to port between projects. Most larger-scale applications share these. My issue is people who default to OOP and use it when it isn't remotely necessary or beneficial.

Do they really? Again, modularization. You can do that exact same thing with hacks or mechanisms like namespaces and modules (include is the PHP construct). If that's the only usage you can come up for OOP, then you aren't truly utilizing it.

Or I can organize things fine without OOP, and I don't see why others wouldn't be able to as well.

No one ever said it was absolutely essential to use OOP. No, it is not a necessity. It's a facility. As in, it facilitates things like development speed, subclassing, objects, and much more. These are powerful tools to a developer. It would be pretty unwise to neglect them.

Furthermore, if you want me to bring up a few "real world" use cases where OOP would prove to be significantly beneficial and actually in turn easier then by all means inquire.

I am no OOP evangelist. I'm simply a man (read: manly man!) who sees a myriad of benefits to something obviously beneficial - that being OOP.