Not the grandparent, but in my view it distracts from what the code actually needs to do. OOP is a tool to structure code and data. It gives us some useful ways to deal with responsibilities, namespaces, some kinds of polymorphism, etc. We should use it in a pragmatic way, and making a class hierarchy reflect the real world often puts aesthetics above practical considerations.
You'd be surprised what kids can achieve with little more than global variables, gotos and if statements. Structure speeds things up and prevents stupid mistakes once you understand the basics, but before that point it can be overwhelming. Far more important, in myexperience, is the "programming mindset".
I agree with that. I was just remembering the first OO stuff I was taught. I think it was a person object which we then had to use to create "Bill", "Jane", etc. Constructor set stuff like eye colour, height, etc.
Then we went on to create a dating app where it would retrieve things like "all the people with brown eyes"
