Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

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One could argue that you are doing "OOP", just on a module level.
Yes, except that you own it.  You control how it's organized, instead of some standards organization.  Plus, you don't get all the unwanted baggage templates anyone? that someone thought would be useful but isn't.