In my experience object oriented is very good for composing high level abstractions into a complete system. Functional is awesome for validation, parsing and massaging data in any way and imperative is tithe most useful paradigm to handle side effect dependent code that either manipulate the computers state ( read/write) or communicate with external systems.

The people acting as if one of them is the one true way are misleading you.

Yeah, you know how people are

"My language is the best"

"My programming paradigm is the best"

"My religion is the best"

"My morals are the best"

It's dumb, but people need to have constant opinions about what they do and like because if someone disagrees with them that somehow invalidates their whole personality. If this isn't the most obvious sign of insecurity I don't know what is...

There are objective examples when something new is better than something old and It's pretty much all around true, but those examples can be put into actual lists of reasons rather than "A sucks, go B"

But what can you do? -_-

Until you've started shoving every "pattern" in it

Everything is subjective to what you’d like to accomplish