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I can agree with this, mostly. More recently I’ve been trying to become aware of how much knowledge I’m encapsulating within functions, preferring to hide more stuff in them rather than less, and avoiding shallow functions that just, say, wrap a single line just passing along the arguments. I’ve realized over my career that I’d prefer a longer function that I can just read straight through rather than jump between a bunch of shallow functions trying to piece things together.
Honestly, as long as the functions you are creating are pure and reasonably named, I think its pretty much always a win to wrap any coherent operation up into one.