There's a lot of reasons to avoid indirection but I don't think decreasing the number of files you have to navigate is one of the better ones. I mean, who read

There's a lot of reasons to avoid indirection but I don't think decreasing the number of files you have to navigate is one of the better ones. I mean, who reads code linearly anyway. My hand hovers over F12 (the shortcut for go to definition in Visual Studio) half the day. Any good IDE will help with this. I feel like this person is like, I don't want to drill all these holes to build my deck. I'll use nails. And it's like, "dude, somebody invented the 3 inch self tapping deck screw; go to town."