[TickleSteve]

(terminology nazi mode)

"... is an indication that the software design isn't (very) decoupled ".

You can be modular without being properly decoupled from the other modules.

[danmaz74]

Hmmm... you have a point, but then, shouldn't it be "decoupled into modules"?

[mdcb]

But then are your modules really modular?

[avisser]

In a C/C++ world, a module is usually defined as a file/.dll/.so on disk. So highly-coupled modules are still modules.