>- Because OOP requires scattering everything across many, many tiny encapsulated objects, the number of references to these objects explodes as well. OOP requires passing long lists of arguments everywhere or holding references to related objects directly to shortcut it.

again IMO, demonstrate that the author never really understood OOP.

That's a "No true Scotchman/OOP" fallacy. The OOP that the author "never understood" is what we see ALL the time in enterprise and startup code.

There could be a better OOP (e.g. Alan Kay's definition of it), but that's not what people are taught or practice.