[acjohnson55]

^ This right here.

I've come to learn that the best way to make your point in any programming debate is to go the extra mile and produce something people can see. Rhetoric and metrics are nice, but what really makes an impact is presenting an actual example of a refactoring.

For the original poster: Is the original code tested? What do the tests look like? Overly complicated unit tests are an indication that things aren't well factored. If you can present a simplification of tests along with your simplified revision of code, that may really speak to how your solution is better.