That's not a premise -- it's a data-driven conclusion. Lines of code correlates strongly with all other complexity metrics, and is way easier to compute and exp

That's not a premise -- it's a data-driven conclusion. Lines of code correlates strongly with all other complexity metrics, and is way easier to compute and explain to someone else. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=code+complexity+lines&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DYrhiA1YB9RgJ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=code...