"custom" threatens modular thinking?

[Dan Jacobson]

Is it true that if a user gets into the habit of using the "custom"
utility, his .emacs will get filled with flat lists of
(custom-set-variables
 '(some-variable t)
 '(some-variable t)

whereas if he were to write his .emacs by hand, he perhaps would nest
the needed variables in hooks only to be called when necessary, etc.
You know, the good programming skills Mom taught you.
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