I would agree in the sense that LOC isn't an informative metric at all since there is surely a lot of auto-generated and copy & paste code in there, likely supe

I would agree in the sense that LOC isn't an informative metric at all since there is surely a lot of auto-generated and copy & paste code in there, likely superlineraly more than a medium sized software project. It doesn't matter whether it's off by some orders of magnitude as it's beyond imagination and comparison anyway.