@hyc @zensoup That's fair. Feel free to help me improve the wording.
We write software for play, to learn something, to entertain someone and/or to help someone do something.
We don't write code to produce lines of code.
Another hedging statement I could add is that fewer lines of code is not better if it's due to code golf or any other code removal that makes the rest less maintainable.
Lines of code is a proxy and always flawed, whether you aim for many or few of them.