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As a reader, I find lots of small chapters annoying.
I have read and enjoyed novels with as few as four chapters, eg Anthony Powell's first novel in the Music of Time sequence, "A Question of Upbringing". Powell's chapter arrangements were largely dictated by his narrative structure: each novel in the sequence of 12 consisted of a handful of longish uninterrupted scenes iwith the same characters. I think the greatest number of chapters in any one of the books was 6.
I have also read books with as many as 90 chapters. In some of these extremely chaptery books it is clear that the author has difficulty writing sustained scenes, and prefers to present the novel as a series of fragments, specially those authors who always write that way.
With frequent shifts of POV, though, I see the merit of chapters for each shift of POV, rather than subchapter line skips or ***'s.
If you are going to identify POV by the name of the character, then you can either treat them as chapters, or look at the structure of the narrative, and identify narrative chapters, and then have the POV names as subchapters. I have certainly seen it done that way in a book I read a while back, quite an old one, too: 1950s? Can't recall the title off-hand. It worked fine.
Chapter 7
Carla
Etoain shrdlu...
Given that this was written under the benign influence of a couple of small bottles of Peroni, I hope it's coherent.
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