Very true. But I think it is important to understand the alternative.
The "object-oriented" part of Modelica is intended to make creating large scale models manageable. You make it sound like the object-oriented features are some kind of facade behind which all kinds of peril lies. But the peril is always there. And my experience of building such models both using a modeling language vs. creating them by hand is that you can't escape the limitations of contemporary numerical/symbolic methods or singular systems. You are, of course, free to hand code models or manually transform them into state space equations if you think there is some benefit to that in the same way. Perhaps it will make it easier to diagnose singular systems. But speaking entirely for me, I find being able to create acausal models using a modeling language gives me a productivity boost that I'd be unwilling to give up.
The "object-oriented" part of Modelica is intended to make creating large scale models manageable. You make it sound like the object-oriented features are some kind of facade behind which all kinds of peril lies. But the peril is always there. And my experience of building such models both using a modeling language vs. creating them by hand is that you can't escape the limitations of contemporary numerical/symbolic methods or singular systems. You are, of course, free to hand code models or manually transform them into state space equations if you think there is some benefit to that in the same way. Perhaps it will make it easier to diagnose singular systems. But speaking entirely for me, I find being able to create acausal models using a modeling language gives me a productivity boost that I'd be unwilling to give up.