I don't think it's terrible advice. He's saying that you shouldn't present more information at once than you need to for the task at hand, not that any single t

I don't think it's terrible advice. He's saying that you shouldn't present more information at once than you need to for the task at hand, not that any single task should take 100 steps. It's fine to have 100 screens if they're well-organized; HN probably has hundreds of thousands of screens.