Yes, it's much easier to write and maintain (up to a point) than an object hierarchy and potentially multiple levels of virtual functions because all the logic is in one place and obvious instead of distributed through x number of files. Of course once you get rid of the OO you'll probably be switching on an enum or something instead.

It's less abstract, simpler and potentially much faster, it's only considered bad by people that think writing OO software is the goal and not a tool to use.