Scrolling is fixable by code folding. You've read and understood the part, now you can fold it. It takes some factoring discipline to not end up with a woven structure.

Unlike a single use function, it does not have a name to remember and is in-place - and definitely is not shared so can be assumed to be safe to modify.

Comments would be much nicer if we could still use column-based commenting which unfortunately is not usable in any modern IDE. Reading code and comments side by side tends to work much better than interleaving.