[manmal]

Solving problems is productivity. That also means, solving them in a way that the solution doesn’t spawn new problems down the road, which is why we should follow the best practices. I can’t say whether deleting 100 lines is better than adding 1K lines, because before passing that judgement I would need to see what exactly those 100 and 1K lines are. OP is arguing too black and white IMO, and draws the conclusion before I‘m sold on the premise.