Are there tradeoffs between individual-element and group-element mindsets with regards to project scale? Does the group-element/global architecture mindset requ

Are there tradeoffs between individual-element and group-element mindsets with regards to project scale? Does the group-element/global architecture mindset require holding the whole program in my head? Is that even possible for large projects? I have no experience working in C. Obviously, some of the biggest and most important codebases on earth are C.