that would only be true with a perfectly expressive language with both high-level and low-level features, perfect support for any kind of metaprogramming and a

that would only be true with a perfectly expressive language with both high-level and low-level features, perfect support for any kind of metaprogramming and a godly optimiser. ofc we don't have that, so code is compressible, and compressible a lot. You can say what you need in English much shorter than in in any programming language