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Why did Drupal decide to move towards Object oriented programming paradigm?

Drupal made a significant shift towards adopting the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm starting with its major release, Drupal 8 many many moons ago. I'm sure many wanted to know why. Drupal addressed the criticism of the lack of explicit use of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Drupal's source code and API by explaining the reasons behind their design choices. Here are the key points they mentioned:

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