A short menu forces the information architecture to become clearer. The useful question is not whether the idea sounds persuasive. It is whether it helps someone understand the work, make a decision, or complete a task with less friction.
What is happening
Large navigation systems often expose internal departments rather than visitor needs. More links can make a site feel less complete because the hierarchy disappears.
This tends to become visible at the boundary between the organization and the person encountering it for the first time. Internal familiarity hides effort that remains obvious to a customer, reader, applicant, or collaborator.
A practical response
Group related material behind plain destinations and keep the primary action distinct. Add a route only when it serves a separate task.
The aim is a smaller, clearer system: one source for the record, one visible hierarchy, and one next action that behaves as expected. That approach improves the immediate page and makes later application or database work easier to add without rebuilding the public surface.