You nailed it!
There was an interesting essay written by someone talking about OO being the "Kingdom of the Nouns". Basically you can't do anything (no verbs) unless you attach it to an object (noun). And there's lots of times you would just like code to do something.
It’s been decades since I programed in COBOL but as I recall COBOL had primitive data objects, kindof like structures in C. Impressive considering COBOL evolved in the 50s.