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I followed the modular init file approach at first, but keeping track of dependencies between different modules was a chore. Having all of my initialization code in a single file greatly simplifies maintenance: I could instantly tell what code runs before or after a certain line and I could easily navigate among sections of code and fold them based on headings.

Nowadays, my emacs init file is 239 kB. Is it messy? Yes, in some places, for customizations I don't care that much, it is, because each section I rely on constantly gets constantly refactored.

Modularization helps when you are going to share code among different projects, but your init file is a single project, what does splitting it buys you? Only increased complexity. Of course, as soon as functions get refactored and made more general and independent, they go into a module of their own.