I am just really tired of seeing articles like this. Sure, you find some rules that are helpful in some specific cases, but those rules almost never generalize (yeah the irony of me making a generalizing statement here is not lost on me, but I did say "almost").

Imagine you got a corporate programming job, and your manager come to you and says "here, in this company, we keep _all_ the if statements in one function, and no ifs are allowed anywhere else". I would just walk out on the spot.

Just stop, stop writing these articles and please stop upvoting them.