Similar experience. I would be the one the entire team would turn to when a really hard problem to debug came up. Yet, when I would say that OOP is not great and is over-complicating the code, I would be scoffed at. I never could reconcile how I was "leaned on" to fix things, but ignored in proposing different paradigms.

I recently read a quote, paraphrasing, Orthodoxy is a poor man's substitute for moral superiority.