Breaking up code is more than just removing redundancy - it's about exactly what you have written: "Encouraging looking at each piece independently". That actually has advantages, the main being that it is easy to understand how each piece operates independently of the other pieces - simply cohesion & coupling which is applicable to any language, not just "Java". I don't believe in my experience that I miss "seeing the forest for the trees" - I encourage you to try it, perhaps by learning some functional programming.
There is one obsession that I am tired of is people posting "X awesome thing in 120 lines of JavaScript" or "Y in 4 functions". Just because the problem is reduced to small as possible metric, it doesn't make it good.
PS: Also you mention negatively connotated terms like "OOP", "Java", "thick layers of abstraction" and "deep chains of function calls" as if you've ascertained that I'm some enterprise developer that doesn't have any C experience and wouldn't know simplicity if it bit me in the ass.
There is one obsession that I am tired of is people posting "X awesome thing in 120 lines of JavaScript" or "Y in 4 functions". Just because the problem is reduced to small as possible metric, it doesn't make it good.
PS: Also you mention negatively connotated terms like "OOP", "Java", "thick layers of abstraction" and "deep chains of function calls" as if you've ascertained that I'm some enterprise developer that doesn't have any C experience and wouldn't know simplicity if it bit me in the ass.