OOP for Network Engineer

Hi, I’m slowly starting my network automation journey with Python and was wondering how much of a benefit it is to know object oriented programming. For some reason it’s way more difficult to understand than “standard” functional programming. I know there’s a lot of courses that focus on OOP but I feel like it would be a waste of time, at least for me. I know this could be on r/LearnPython or something similar but I wanted to know what’s the relation between OOP and network engineers.

Thanks