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> The complexity only changes form, so instead of tracing the flow through an inheritance hierarchy you're just doing it through chains of forwarding methods. It's for this same reason I don't believe so much his argument for readability and short classes - breaking everything up does not make things simpler, it makes the complexity spread out over a larger area; while it may be true that it is easier to understand an individual piece, it becomes more difficult to understand the system as a whole.

Preach it! Whilst immense monolithic classes are bad, smashing a system up into a million tiny bits is just as much of a barrier to understanding. It is baffling to me that this is not immediately obvious to everyone.

See also the microservices movement!