It seems like the law of diminishing returns; while I'm sure in a few cases this characteristic of a code writing style is extremely useful, it cuts into other

It seems like the law of diminishing returns; while I'm sure in a few cases this characteristic of a code writing style is extremely useful, it cuts into other things such as readability and conciseness. Fewer lines can mean fewer bugs, within reason, if you aren't in lisp and are using more than 3 parentheses, you might want to split it up because the compiler/JIT/interpreter is going to anyway.