Personally, I find linear code more readable when I have context. The pizza example reads better linearly because is easy to figure out the context. But when I

Personally, I find linear code more readable when I have context. The pizza example reads better linearly because is easy to figure out the context. But when I have no context (I enter a new code base) linear code is harder for me to reason about because at that point I’m just trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. At this point having everything stuffed in one place makes figuring out the higher level picture pretty difficult. I recently had to update a 1000+ lines of code function with very specific business rules that I had no context of. I’m sure for the developer writing it at that time it was easier to put everything in one big function, but it was pretty hard to figure out everything that was going on in there. I had to refactor it into a few smaller functions in order for me and the team to figure out what was actually going on and how we could fit the new business requirements into it.