>> they see nothing wrong with hundreds of tiny functions that are only called from one place. It annoys me that the original point of those terms, that code is for humans, is lost.

I write code that way (hundreds of tiny methods/functions) because I find it easier to read and modify, and therefore maintain and I've largely done this from a junior dev's point of view where maintainance was most of the job I was doing day in, day out. If you find it hard to follow that sort of program flow maybe it's a sign that there's no rule and different people find different types of coding easier to maintain.

In which case we're all a bit screwed as we inevitably eventually will have to handle the code of someone who's had the opposite view than ours.

On the plus side, that means we don't have to sweat it so badly with the "right" way to write code and just accept that code eventually becomes one big mess with a gigantic, horrible 50-case switch statement in the middle.