> there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code

I see you're familiar with Uncle Bob's handiwork

I feel like half of junior programmers are susceptible to this.

There is now a second edition of that book which has supposedly been rewritten to fix that.

It strongly pushes for max 3 LOC per function, and I am not even joking.