Nicely put, thank you. What can sadly be even worse are physicists-turned-coders who think code is good if 1. everything is encapsulated as much as possible and 2. there are comments for every line.

Of course, I once was that physicist! Now I prefer working with arrays and functions that receive arrays and return arrays, even in the top-level, user-facing script.

But who knows, maybe there will be a next stage in the journey!