A class whose methods are nearly all delegations to one collaborator object — no decisions, no transformations, just passthrough.
A class whose methods all delegate straight through to another object; the agent traces every call to the real implementation through the passthrough hop.
Callers talk directly to the real object; trivial passthroughs are deleted.
Callers talk to the real object directly; the agent's call traces are shorter and the implementation's location is obvious.
Before the refactoring
class Manager {reports() { return this.team.members(); }}
After the refactoring
// Expose team directly when the wrapper adds nothing.manager.team.members();
Every consumer pays a hop to reach the real implementation; the middle man adds file count and indirection with no value; future maintenance must update both classes for any change to the delegated API.
The agent navigates the indirection on every reasoning step; refactoring the delegate's API requires the agent to update both classes in sync.
Direct access to the delegate exposes its surface to every consumer — only remove the middle man when most of its methods are passthroughs.
Direct access exposes the real object's full surface to every consumer; the agent loses any encapsulation the middle man was providing (even if mostly cosmetic).
Fewer files, shorter call stacks, the implementation's location is obvious.
Fewer files; shorter call stacks; the agent's plan-and-execute loop touches the real implementation directly.
Deleting a middle man that's actually doing real work — authorization, validation, auditing — that the trivial-looking delegations were quietly enforcing.
Deleting a passthrough that was doing real work — authorization, validation, auditing — removes a load-bearing layer the agent didn't recognize because the trivial-looking delegation masked it.