Also, I see every custom line of code written as a future burden. Part of software engineering is effectively minimizing and managing that burden. If we write

Also, I see every custom line of code written as a future burden. Part of software engineering is effectively minimizing and managing that burden. If we write 10,000 LoC for something that we didn't end up needing... the team's going to be tempted to wrangle that into the actual purpose instead of throwing it out. So overly aggressive fingers on keyboard lead to more bloated results, as requirements drift during development and more code is written to target them.