The spirit of the claim is to reduce the number of expressions by 10x while only sacrificing the “unnecessarily complicated” functionality. It is a question of

The spirit of the claim is to reduce the number of expressions by 10x while only sacrificing the “unnecessarily complicated” functionality. It is a question of system design that demands judgement, and not just a raw code length compression. It’s about preventing large (and poorly thought out) projects from being worked on in the first place, before they need to be scrapped or circumvented.