I think that, it's not money per se, but as you say the number of people between the developer and the decision maker. The only person who perceives the proble

I think that, it's not money per se, but as you say the number of people between the developer and the decision maker. The only person who perceives the problem of having too much code, is the developer (and then only sometimes). Organizations do well at optimizing what they track, in many cases, but they don't track amount of existing code as a negative thing that needs maintaining, so they don't do well at optimizing that.