Identifiers have the same problem that comments have: the thing identified can grow different responsibilities than its name. You don't get magically updating identifiers any more than you get magically updating comments.
I've found that people who believe too much in the ability for identifiers to tell the story of the code factor too much stuff into separate non-reused functions. The result being that you can't take the name at face value; you need to push the current context onto your mental stack, drill into the identifier being called, and if necessary continue drilling, until the unstated side-effects and extra bits and bobs that always accrete in continuously maintained code become clear. This code is ironically harder to read than inlined code.
I've found that people who believe too much in the ability for identifiers to tell the story of the code factor too much stuff into separate non-reused functions. The result being that you can't take the name at face value; you need to push the current context onto your mental stack, drill into the identifier being called, and if necessary continue drilling, until the unstated side-effects and extra bits and bobs that always accrete in continuously maintained code become clear. This code is ironically harder to read than inlined code.