This is an interesting thought experiment. Following the rewrite-not-edit method rule forces one to either sink or swim. And the only maintainable way to swim

This is an interesting thought experiment. Following the rewrite-not-edit method rule forces one to either sink or swim. And the only maintainable way to swim is to write small focused orthogonal methods that do one thing only. Otherwise, it is impossible at any scale to follow rewrite-not-edit. I like take on different perspectives like this. Doing so ensures one thinks about how to design and what to code before simply diving in.