I really am not seeing a problem anywhere. OO and the structure that follows from it, which is what ends up being seen in this instance, seems like a perfectly reasonable way to write these programs. Programming in an inherently object-based thing like the DOM without objects.. why?
Saying "OO is Evil" is the flavour of the month. Functional Programming is the new cool kid on the block. This would, in theory, be a good thing.
Unfortunately legions of Javascript fanboys have recently noticed that they don't have the keyword 'class' in the language, but they do have functions and have decided this means that it's a functional programming language, and they knew better than everyone all along.
They'll then follow it up with some perfectly nice procedural code and tell themselves it's functional with a nice little pat on the back.
I don't know if any of the "cool kids" believe Javascript is a functional language. Can one write code in a functional STYLE in Javascript? (can they write higher order functions, can they write functions with no side-effects, could they build monads) Sure, it's entirely possible - just like it is in Ruby, Python, and pretty much any decent language. I think what some of the push is, is to write javascript in more of a functional style as they feel it's more elegant. (I could be way off base though... I haven't been "cool" in years)
