[why-oh-why]

Some bad code is hard to lint automatically (e.g. if there’s a single function that all it does is arg.slice(1), no linter will catch that).

I’ve found all kind of bugs just refactoring code because poor code obfuscates them.

Your way of building things will lead to debt and bug reports

[austincheney]

How that code example a style violation? I am not even sure how it's bad code. In JavaScript that would just return a value without the first index. What code style rule would solve for that in a meaningful way that you are willing to enforce uniformly on all concerns?

[why-oh-why]

It is because if a file is made of a hundred 1-line functions that’s not good code. The separation of concerns is likely not meaningful and it’s detrimental to the reading/understanding of the file.

Why create a function that shortens/clarifies nothing and is used once? If you want to explain some code, use a comment, don’t make spaghetti