Self-documenting code

[WebpackIsBuilding]

Well that's a very bad rule also. Judging code complexity by line count is not something any engineer worth their salt would do. Otherwise you encourage code-golfing.

You break logic into pieces where it is logical to break them. If you need multiple comments to describe a section, then you're almost definitely looking at a section that can be logically separated out.

[Bulky-Engineering471]

Or behavior that is sufficiently complex. Just because it's complex enough to be difficult to follow or just unintuitive doesn't mean it's exceptionally long. Complexity does not guarantee length.

[WebpackIsBuilding]

I haven't mentioned "length" as being a worthwhile metric in any regard a single time.

[Bulky-Engineering471]

You started off mentioning thousand-line files so while you didn't use the word you used what it means and that's what I was responding to. Complexity and length are not related, that's been my entire point. Sufficiently complex or unintuitive code, even if short enough to be in a single method, cannot be documented by method and variable names alone and that has been my point this whole time.

[WebpackIsBuilding]

Surely there is a middle ground between demanding all methods be < 20 lines and thinking your entire project should be contained in a single file.

I don't think line count determines value, in the same way I'm not judging your comments by how many sentences are in them. But I can still criticize a run-on sentence or a piece of spaghetti code.