The issue is that short code lines increases the length of code aka wastes vertical screen reasl estate aka visible code, so you're overburdened short term memo

The issue is that short code lines increases the length of code aka wastes vertical screen reasl estate aka visible code, so you're overburdened short term memory has to context switch to scroll. "Simple, put code in small methods" Oh great, now I do a nav jump or a string search as a context switch rather than scroll. Comments? increase vertical screen pollution. Proper chunking is hard. Maybe APL was right.