This was going to be my exact recommendation. By “separating the concerns”, you make it easier on my pretty much every dimension: testing in unit tests, doing

This was going to be my exact recommendation. By “separating the concerns”, you make it easier on my pretty much every dimension: testing in unit tests, doing a dry run in production, ability to read the code (you and code reviews), and in some cases your code will be written in a more functional way reducing variable scoping issues.