No, at the time it did seem monstrous and barbaric to need 125 lines for hello.c, when 5 or 6 was quite properly considered the norm. "Behemoth" is a relative term in this case.

Edit: In the decades since nothing has changed in my mind. The messy Windows boilerplate code that made up the other 120 lines or so should have been refactored architecturally and hidden by a framework, API call, something, anything.