I don't find the end result to be significant for anything other than code cleanliness/readability.

Agreed, I think. But isn't readability a very important goal? "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

I often find the decision to make class/function/object to be somewhat negligible when the purpose is as trivial as the examples provided.

Yeah I agree with that. The reason I chose trivial examples was just to make it easier to understand.