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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Operator overloading, just like Sepples itself, can be good if used correctly. For example, the string class uses operators in a pretty intuitive way.

And what's wrong with templates?