Sure, you can create a Sorites paradox out of this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox Eventually y

Sure, you can create a Sorites paradox out of this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox Eventually you will have to commit to an arbitrary value, and stick to it. But there are cases in which it's no longer subjective if cyclomatic complexity is bad. If you have a 500 lines of code function with 50 return points and cyclomatic complexity of 100 it is very clear there is no way you can maintain that or write a unit test for it without playing Russian roulette each time you check in a change and therefore you can objectively say that code is not safe and should not be allowed.