well, i guess i haven't seen much code where modules were used so frequently that the verbosity became an issue.

in the few cases where you have one or two verbose function calls that are called many times you can always assign them to some short variable and solve the problem that way.

i don't see the path checking issue. module paths form an easily recognizable pattern that doesn't increase my effort to read the code. you'd have to have some very similar named modules for that to be a problem.