That sounds like reverse justification, i.e., Google's operations probably require X lines of clean code added everyday by 10% of the engineers (so ~5000 inste

That sounds like reverse justification, i.e., Google's operations probably require X lines of clean code added everyday by 10% of the engineers (so ~5000 instead of ~50,000 engineers), but because of the sheer number of engineers Google has, that are supposed to do something continuously to show performance, Google has ended up with ~10 or ~100 X lines of daily bloat accumulation. Sounds like a textbook example of too-many-hands-spoiling-the-broth.