Isn't what you're saying kind of exactly the point of the article in the first place? The conclusion even explicitly points out that the aim was not to actually claim small functions are harmful(!), but rather that the converse - small functions are good - isn't inherently true either.
And while the article doesn't make fully concrete examples, it does propose the outlines of a few; enough to get across a meaningful message (to me). Also; arguments that lean on concrete example are more at risk of attacking strawmen precisely because a concrete example can be flawed in irrelevant ways that obscure the underlying principles. Not that I'm opposed to examples - just that most examples are almost necessarily simplifications, and choosing a sourcecode simplification is not categorically different or better than choosing a pseudocode or diagram simplification.
And while the article doesn't make fully concrete examples, it does propose the outlines of a few; enough to get across a meaningful message (to me). Also; arguments that lean on concrete example are more at risk of attacking strawmen precisely because a concrete example can be flawed in irrelevant ways that obscure the underlying principles. Not that I'm opposed to examples - just that most examples are almost necessarily simplifications, and choosing a sourcecode simplification is not categorically different or better than choosing a pseudocode or diagram simplification.
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