The discussion is more fairly framed as: Do you use abstraction (hide details) in your code base? Number of lines of code is, perhaps, a symptom of code that do

The discussion is more fairly framed as: Do you use abstraction (hide details) in your code base? Number of lines of code is, perhaps, a symptom of code that doesn't use abstraction well, but isn't proof. We need to see the the code base, understand its design goals, and how it's actually used before we can pass judgement.