Indeed, decomposition is easier than extracting modules. This is often an argument in favor of modularity! :) As others have mentioned, the second issue can be

Indeed, decomposition is easier than extracting modules. This is often an argument in favor of modularity! :) As others have mentioned, the second issue can be addressed with tooling. But, is excessive modularity really the culprit? Are you saying you read the code and found that to be the case, or it's just a hunch? Reading through the comments here, it seems that whatever one's personal hobby-horse happens to be is what will get the blame.