I agree and disagree with you :). Yes, I agree, he's advocating in-lining one-off functions, and I can see both points of view from that.

Having said that, how often do you have a large method where it isn't modifying a lot of state? I guess it depends on the context like a lot of things, but it seems like that's what is happening in the code I deal with (large methods changing state as well as having a lot of dependencies).

But the "article" isn't an article exactly, it's a commentary of an email that's 7 years old. The original email seems to completely advocate in-lining; the "article" part backtracks somewhat, and that's what my comment was around. I'm not always the clearest in my writing though.