Yeah I agree with this. Or, rather, I think there's an argument to be made that what we're really interested in is logic density Vs logic sparsity and when developing something we have to decide what the right level of that is. So if you're a small team, logic density makes sense because it means one person can have a lot of context in one place and make significant changes without doing a lot of context switching. Don't underestimate the productivity of one experienced guy doing old school PHP.

But if you're a large team on a large project logic sparsity (with appropriate decoupling!) makes sense because then multiple people can change the code simultaneously without stepping on each others' toes. People can specialise where appropriate without having to understand the whole thing. The "sparsity" approach is obviously what enterprises see as good news mostly because it means they can have large teams without silos but in real terms it costs a lot of money to operate this way. Although I think as you rightly point out, Java has in recent years realised that it possibly went a bit too far in that direction historically.