What exactly are you contributing by taking what they said to the extreme?
Should someone now have to point out to you that a million-line function is worse than a ten-line function for calculating fizzbuzz? Is that meaningful discourse in your book?
My response seems to have upset you. I'm sorry that happened.
In general I believe that number of lines of code is correlated with number of bugs, but I would hesitate to say that it is proportional to. Going in with the explicit goal of reducing the number of lines could easily lead to more bugs, not less.
Should someone now have to point out to you that a million-line function is worse than a ten-line function for calculating fizzbuzz? Is that meaningful discourse in your book?