I've worked mostly on massive apps with 400K to 1 or 2 million lines of code, in many projects, so the concept of linearly reading thru the code is something th

I've worked mostly on massive apps with 400K to 1 or 2 million lines of code, in many projects, so the concept of linearly reading thru the code is something that just never happens. But with a "keep it simple" philosophy the number of lines of actual code never really matters that much, while code where the developers were clever and complex at every opportunity (often just showing off) the code is quicksand and a quagmire every every single line of the way, and is a nightmare.