IMO line count is an important metric if two companies are broadly similar but one gets the job done with 10x less code, they're probably in a better survival

IMO line count is an important metric if two companies are broadly similar but one gets the job done with 10x less code, they're probably in a better survival position not all logic should be reusable or super generic, but there's a size level at which avoiding abstractions becomes toxic to further growth there's a good article floating around somewhere about things you learn at 1k, 10k, 100k-line codebases and how your philosophy changes with a million caveats, of course, size and maintainability are going to be correlated