Well, I'm just saying it's not an issue that businesses care about. Removing a few extra lines of unused code in a product will have basically no visible effec

Well, I'm just saying it's not an issue that businesses care about. Removing a few extra lines of unused code in a product will have basically no visible effect to the end user. And might have no measurable effect on the burden of maintenance either. Maybe if you could find a way to measure the complexity that you're reducing, in some kind of metric, then businesses will care.