> Another way of describing this, that I ran across recently, is that this increases the cognitive load for developers working on the code, and cognitive load i

> Another way of describing this, that I ran across recently, is that this increases the cognitive load for developers working on the code, and cognitive load is one metric by which code can be measured as "good" or "bad". Things like excessive scrolling and switching between files increases cognitive load. Actually that’s one the reasons why he advocates not splitting code (arbitrarily) in the book.