Comment by zem

> Say, you have a process that is single threaded and does a lot of stuff that has to happen step by step. > New dev comes in; and starts splitting everything it does in 12 functions, because, _a function, should do one thing

I would almost certainly split it up, not because "a function should only do one thing" but because invariably you get a run of several steps that can be chunked into one logical operation, and replacing those steps with the descriptive name reduces the cognitive load of reading and maintaining the original function.