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The irony of the anti-OOP bashers is that all successful GUI frameworks are OOP based, even those written in non-OOP languages like C.

Likewise all the functional programming languages that get used as example, are also not pure FP, rather multi-paradigm, also supporting concepts from OOP.

"FP vs OOP: Choose Two by Brian Goetz"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSk5fdKbd3o

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GUI frameworks have always been OOP-based because everybody was copying Xerox Parc. But even the most successful were not always easy to use (composition and control-flow/concurrency being particularly awkward). Modern GUIs are all based on HTML/CSS these days anyway and certainly not always OOP, as demonstrated by frameworks such as react.

I think that is a bit like saying Xerox parc guis were all pixels which certainly isn't oop. Modern guis are mostly OO code that targets the Dom or generates HTML on the server

Those modern GUI based on HTML/CSS don't work at all without JavaScript.

Prototype inheritance is also OOP.

I'm not a web developer, but I don't think the OOP features of JavaScript are really used much. I once saw some jQuery code and it looked pretty functional to me.

Other than those exposed via the Document Object Module.

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