Hi there. The article's author here.
In my place of work there aren't other programmers. I'm kind of a "one man show" there.
And you got this precisely right, I should've know better and before starting the rewrite and thought about the trade-offs.
I think that the point I was trying to make is that I've always been kind of blind to the fact that there are alternatives to OOPL and that they're are viable.