I don't understand the point in removing cyclic references, coming from FORTH, Lisp, Smalltalk point of view those are required, if you split a big recursion in

I don't understand the point in removing cyclic references, coming from FORTH, Lisp, Smalltalk point of view those are required, if you split a big recursion into smaller factors. The recursion automatically becomes a cyclic reference between words, functions, methods or even classes, as classes are just closures. Does he want to forbid factoring? His feature looks more like a deficit of the linker to me.