I think you're onto something. Developers look at their freshly written code, marvel at how succinct it is and then pat themselves on the back for being so cle

I think you're onto something. Developers look at their freshly written code, marvel at how succinct it is and then pat themselves on the back for being so clever. "It's just one line and I read it. Boom! Readable!". A few months later, another developer comes to look at the code and has to spend 10x more time parsing each character in that statement before they can even understand the logic behind it. Brevity might be a kind of "vanity metric" when it comes readability.