I don't know how that book ever got as big as it did, all you have to do is try it to know that it's very annoying and does not help readability at all.
As John Carmack said: "if a lot of operations are supposed to happen in a sequential fashion, their code should follow sequentially" (https://cbarrete.com/carmack.html).
A single method with a few lines is easy to read, like the processor reading a single cache line, while having to jump around between methods is distracting and slow, like the processor having to read various RAM locations.
Depending on the language you can also have very good reasons to have many lines, for example in Java a method can't return multiple primitive values, so if you want to stick to primitives for performances you inline it and use curly braces to limit the scope of its internals.
No need for the scare quotes. Forcefully removing people's agency over themselves is pretty much the definition of evil. We do not hurt criminals as punishment anymore, in the civilized age, but we still lock them up.
Now, of course we should not equate physical prisons and digital prisons in any other way, but we should absolutely call both forms of imprisonment evil, plain and simple.
Singapore is quite civilized, and they conduct caning strokes.