I agree with the premise of this article. You want a program to have as few lines of code as are required to satisfy the needs of stakeholders (especially custo

I agree with the premise of this article. You want a program to have as few lines of code as are required to satisfy the needs of stakeholders (especially customers and other operators of your software). The size of the solution must not exceed the size of the problem it solves. You need to focus on the essence of the problem and make compromises based on what is most important. Keeping the lines of code count low is a worthy target. There is a balance to be reached but devs today are far too permissive when it comes to complexity creep. It should be setting off alarm bells much sooner.