On one level, I do prefer my code to be readable left to right and top to bottom. This, typically, means the big "narrative" functions up top and any supporting functions will come after they were used. Ideally, you could read those as "details" after you have understood the overall flow.

On another level, though, it isn't like this is how most things are done. Yes, you want a general flow that makes sense in one direction through text. But this often has major compromises and is not the norm. Directly to programming, trying to make things context free is just not something that works in life.

Directly to this discussion, I'm just not sure how much I care about small context-free parts of the code?

Tangential to this discussion, I oddly hate comprehensions in python. I have yet to get where I can type those directly. And, though I'm asking if LLM tools are making this OBE, I don't use those myself. :(