That's taking things literally too far. Common sense says take some giant unsigned long long constant used in multiple places that cannot be vertically aligned

That's taking things literally too far. Common sense says take some giant unsigned long long constant used in multiple places that cannot be vertically aligned and give it the semantic meaning it deserves. The goal of reducing LoC is to not obscure meaning but to write less code that states its behavior more clearly. Abstractions are garbage if they are confusing / hide meaning, but abstractions are immensely valuable if they perform complex operations in a clear manner (say an well-designed http client lib in C.)