Lines of code is a poor metric, as usual. You can easily have multiple transformations in one line, or write expressions with a dozen nodes without intermediate

Lines of code is a poor metric, as usual. You can easily have multiple transformations in one line, or write expressions with a dozen nodes without intermediates, like a mathematician. Perhaps you believe this makes code more readable. When you run that code in a debugger (the one true way to understand any program) that will come back to haunt you.