Comment by Barrin92

>Yes, it may feel redundant, but it absolutely improves human comprehension because it reads like clear human instructions.

That should always be how code is written, including inside of functions, which is the real problem here. Something absent from the original code that is needed in a case like this isn't more functions, it's comments and good names.

Pulling something out into a function that is purely individual application logic without intent for reuse is not the right way to use a function, whose purpose is to be called, ideally somewhere else and not just once. As Ousterhout points out in his book, proper abstractions hide information and implementation, they aren't just scaffolding that increase the surface of an interface without doing anything.