I am complaining about the distortion field OOP haters happen to have regarding language semantics.

That's fair, but I'd still argue that there's a difference in whether code has to be written by defining objects directly or being able to work at a different abstraction level where objects are an underlying implementation detail that get leveraged by other language constructs that are familiar from non-OO paradigms. Whether or not that difference is important or good is a subjective opinion, but I don't see an argument about the underlying implementation as a particularly strong refutation of someone stating that they like having that level of abstraction available.